Completed bi-colour Veil Nebula mosaic

[RickS]

A bi-colour (Ha/OIII) Veil with RGB stars - a 6 panel mosaic captured at SRO with a Tak FSQ-106ED and QSI683 camera.  This was my first big mosaic and it was quite challenging.  Despite a fastish i7 CPU, 24GB of RAM and a couple of SSDs it takes a long time to do stuff with 144 megapixel images (drizzled from 2 arcsec/pixel -> 1)  I included a few crops since the whole mosaic doesn't fit well on most screens 

[Juan Conejero]

I don't usually comment on gallery images, but this time I'm going to make an exception. Absolutely wonderful!

[RickS]

Thanks very much, Juan!  I couldn't have done it without PI    The processing was mostly straightforward but I used a little PixelMath to tease additional colour out of the bi-colour combination.

Cheers,
Rick.

[Zocky]

Rick, this is absolutely stunning. Although I am not a big fan of bi-color images, I admire to your work.

[RickS]

Thanks, Zocky!  As I mentioned, I did use a little PixelMath to expand the range of hues from the basic red/teal-blue of a straight bi-colour combination.  I think it was a worthwhile improvement.

Cheers,
Rick.

[ajbarr]

Rick I agree with the others. I think this image is amazing. Great work.

Albert

[RickS]

Thanks very much, Albert.

[rvillaverde]

Fantastic picture¡¡¡

[RickS]

Thanks.