Veil Nebula in Narrowband Bicolour Palette

[kayronjm]

High-resolution on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lightvortexastronomy/35881314824
High-resolution on AstroBin: http://www.astrobin.com/308135

My latest image - the Veil Nebula in its entirety, depicted in Narrowband Bicolour Palette. This image is a 9-panel mosaic and comprises a total of 180 exposures of 30 minutes each, totaling 90 hours of exposure time in Hydrogen-Alpha and Oxygen-III.

All imaging took place at my remote observatory at e-EyE, Spain.

Equipment and software used:

Mount: Avalon M-Uno
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-85ED
Camera: QSI 660wsg-8
Autoguider: Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2
Filters: Astrodon Hydrogen-Alpha 3nm and Oxygen-III 3nm
Capture Software: Sequence Generator Pro and PHD2
Processing Software: PixInsight

[Alfredo Beltran]

90 hours!!

Congratulations on such detailed image Kayron, and to the dedication on this image.

Alfredo

[kayronjm]

90 hours!!

Congratulations on such detailed image Kayron, and to the dedication on this image.

Alfredo

Thank you very much!

[Niall Saunders]

Hi Kayron - yes, that is an excellent image. My own personal taste would have been to have the 'background' sllightly 'darker' - to allow the nebulosity 'pop' more. However, in an area where nebulosity dominates, I accept that there are many different ways to approach the problem, and your choice is no less valid than anyone else's.

Well done!

[kayronjm]

Hi Kayron - yes, that is an excellent image. My own personal taste would have been to have the 'background' sllightly 'darker' - to allow the nebulosity 'pop' more. However, in an area where nebulosity dominates, I accept that there are many different ways to approach the problem, and your choice is no less valid than anyone else's.

Well done!

Thank you! Indeed, though the dark sky I image under has produced tons of diffuse HA signal all over the background, so I chose to pull it out instead. 8)

[msmythers]

Kayron

Love the image. One thing on what Niall was saying it is possible to target only the pixels without the diffused nebulosity using the Color Mask script. It can be very precise. Between it, a good star mask and pixel math you could create a very good mask for everything but the background.


Mike

[kayronjm]

Kayron

Love the image. One thing on what Niall was saying it is possible to target only the pixels without the diffused nebulosity using the Color Mask script. It can be very precise. Between it, a good star mask and pixel math you could create a very good mask for everything but the background.


Mike

Thank you! Yeah, I've used that script before, it's excellent, but I didn't use it for this image. On my monitor (IPS), I'm seeing over 90% of background covered in diffuse nebulosity, which is what I was aiming to bring out. In reality there seems to be very little in the way of background here.