Veil Nebula in Ha + OIII

[Paramount]

Hi
I managed to get out again last night to get some more data on the Veil Nebula complex. The sky remained clear all night and I took 4 hours of OIII data and an 1 hour and 40 minutes of Ha to go with the Ha I got last week.
I combined this so that Ha=Red, OIII=Green and (20%Ha + 100%OIII)=Blue
It was taken with the FSQ106ED and Starlight Xpress H36
10x20 minutes Ha and 12x20 minutes OIII auto guided by Lodestar using dithering in Maxim DL, mount was a Paramount ME.
At the next opportinity I will be doing the SII data to finish this off, the full size high resolution version can be seen at this link
http://www.pbase.com/imaging_the_hea...58726/original
It is over 18mb in size so please excuse the slow download, the Ha version can be seen on the Nebulae 2 page of the image gallery of my website
http://www.imagingtheheavens.co.uk along with earlier attempts at this target
Thanks for looking
Best wishes
Gordon

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Thats fantastic Gordon

Has an almost 3D effect to it.

The left side is a bit spooky, looks like a grinning face in profile, looking left......

Cheers

Chris

[Paramount]

Hi Chris
Thanks for the comments, it is funny you should mention about the face in profile on the left, somebody else commented about the Ha version saying it looked like a Japanese death mask. Continuing on an oriental theme, if you rotate it 90 degrees clockwise it looks a bit like the head and tail of Chinese dancing dragon that they have at their festivals
Best wishes
Gordon

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

A lovely image Gordon - well done!

Cheers, Marcus

[ptc (Richard)]

I like that a lot Gordon. Nice one.

Now get that Sulfur data!

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Shaping up nicely, will look for the final installment.
Nice to see the thumbnail pic beside the thread..... Drew me right in.

Clive

[RobF (Rob)]

Wow - just stunning
So nice to see "the bits in-between" too. My FOV doesn't really allow.

Thanks for showing.