Wide field of Veil Nebula at 255mm f/4.2

[Philippe B.]

Hello
Here is a classic but fully preprocessed and processed with PI 1.7

QSI-540WSG on FS60 at 255mm f/4.2
JPZ (FS2) mount
Astrodon Ha, OIII and SII in 3nm
Ha = 17 x 20min (bin1x1)
OIII = 11 x 20 min (bin 1x1)
SII = 9 x 20 min (bin 1x1)

[Nocturnal]

Well done!

[vicent_peris]

Hi Philippe,

I think this is a remarkable image, at least from the documentary point of view. You brought out extremely well the external H-alpha shell towards the north.

One small note: There is a myth that says that the H-beta emission is just the same as the H-alpha emission but with lower intensity... That's just a myth. Some times you can find completely different structures in H-beta and H-alpha. So putting the H-alpha information as H-beta in the G and B channels is not giving any "real" information to the viewer. A completely different thing would be that you don't want to represent the H-alpha emission as pure red.


Best regards,
Vicent.

[Nocturnal]

I'm suspect of all techniques that involve mixing narrow band information. I don't even like mixing Ha with RGB I've seen the Hb and Ha thing many times before and I'm no fan. 'Synthetic green' is another one of those things. You can't synthesize non-existent signal.

[oldwexi]

Philippe!
This image impresses me very much.
It gives for me a new, detailed and interesting view on an
"old" and usually to short exposed object.
Congratulations. Thats the best Veil i have seen so far.

Aloha
Gerald

[pfile]

good god! that's the deepest veil i've ever seen. beautiful work!

[Philippe B.]

Thank you very much for your comments


That's right "narrowband-to-real" palette is a big part of "artistic" view I think.
I don't really like the standard HST (SHO) palette for this object.


But, many scientific approch have been done many time, also nice. Why not an artistic way 

[sleshin]

Great image, beautifully processed. You've teased out a lot of fine wispy structure not often displayed in this target. Very well done.

Steve