Eastern Veil

Martin Pugh · #1 05-09-2011, 05:36 PM

Hello all - lodge this one away for Halloween!

This is a bi-colour image of the eastern part of the Veil Nebula consisting of about 6 hours OIII, and 3 hours of Ha. Synthetic luminance was also used.

http://www.martinpughastrophotograph.../East-Veil.jpg

Again, if you want to have a look around the wider field of this region, you can do that here:

http://www.martinpughastrophotograph...Nebula_FLI.htm

Planewave CDK 17, Apogee U16M, Astrodon 3nm OIII and 5nm Ha filters.

thanks for looking!

Martin

richardo (Rich) · #2 05-09-2011, 05:46 PM

Insane detail Martin!
Just startling beautiful!
Can't stop looking at it.
Love the cropped version.

I really like bicolouration... Steve Canistras images done with his method some years back had me thinking this was the way to go without the extra channel.

Once more, a wonderful image!

All the best
Rich

Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi) · #3 05-09-2011, 06:07 PM

FANTASTIC !!!!
One of the best i have seen !!!

Ciao,
Leo

Alchemy (Clive) · #4 05-09-2011, 06:31 PM

Quite a detailed image, interesting how the o3 shows much more structured detail than the Ha , quite obvious here.

What's happening to the centre top, it's noticeably different ? I would have though if it's side on it would be even more defined.

multiweb (Marc) · #5 05-09-2011, 06:33 PM

Awesome shot - looks like one of those dark kings from the LOTR. Very dynamic picture with insane details.

gregbradley · #6 05-09-2011, 06:39 PM

A very wild looking image. Lots of detail. I find the background noise too high for my personal taste in the larger image though.

Greg.

mswhin63 (Malcolm) · #7 05-09-2011, 09:55 PM

I didn't realise Virgin Galactic are flying. Did you take your scope with you. Fantastic images Martin

desler · #8 05-09-2011, 09:59 PM

Oh wow, you also got a "wow, what the heck is that?" from my 17 year old as she walked past. Must be something speacial!!!!

Well done Martin.

Darren

Aris Greece (Aris) · #9 05-09-2011, 10:46 PM

OMG,OMG,OMG!!!!
I've seen soooo many images of the Veil but that's....something else!
Perfect job.

RobF (Rob) · #10 05-09-2011, 10:49 PM

Wow, now that really is special.
To be honest, I didn't even recognise the exact part of the field at first - everyone usually shows the whole of that part with the emphasis on the brighter Ha regions. Wonderfully original too.

Octane (Humayun) · #11 05-09-2011, 10:53 PM

I got a shiver down my spine when I first opened that up.

That is just astounding.

Talk about electric neon. Wow!

If I had to nitpick, I would say that the composition is a little unbalanced. The right-hand side seems to abruptly cut off into the frame. But, that's just me being anal.

Another corker, Martin.

H

Ken Crawford (KenC) · #12 05-09-2011, 11:24 PM

That is wonderful, strong OIII and Ha really makes a difference. What is really cool is how bright this object is, we were looking at it with an OIII visual filter and an Obsession 18" and you can really see the tendrils. Your image really shows the depth of field!

Ric · #13 06-09-2011, 01:15 AM

Spectacular colours Martin with amazing detail.

A very enjoyable image.

Martin Pugh · #14 06-09-2011, 01:24 AM

Thanks all.
Ken - you are right. I thought I was going to have to accumulate hours of exposure with the 3nm OIII filter, but it just booms in. Believe it or not, I have not used curves on this image at all.

I think I did cut short on the Ha though, hence the background noise (Greg) - so I will go and get some more I think before I finalize this image.

Clive - I think what you are referring to is the red/blue 'fringe' at the top centre of the image? Well, that was clearly there in differing strengths in the OIII/Ha data, but I had to tease it out.

thanks again
Martin