Western Veil in Ha, a reduced scope Summer project

[PaulKummer]

My grand plan this Summer was a NB mosaic of the Western Veil - some hope:(. Indeed, I ended up struggling to get even the Ha and had to resort to salvaging data I would normally bin. Having said that I'm reasonably pleased with the way this has turned out. The less ambitious plan for next year is to get some Oiii.

So, a 3 pane mosaic, roughly 5 hours for each pane with a mixture of 10 and 5 minute subs.

Aquisition: WO Megrez 72 with 0.8x, Atik 314L, MaximDL.

Processing: PI for calibration and stacking, Registar and PS for putting it all together.

The full sized image can be viewed here

Comments always welcome

Paul

[johnh]

This is a splendid result, your processing has really brough out Pickering's Triangle very strongly, tendrils from PT are glorious. With the 2 narrowbands (Ha+O3) or just an RGB with Ha this will be really beautiful. Don't bin any of the narrowbands as it does not work just use longer subs.

John.

[themos]

That is very good data presented naturally, a beauty!

[PaulKummer]

Many thanks for your encouraging comments

Paul

[peter shah]

nice and deep....

[ollypenrice]

Hey Paul, you're flying! That's great. I agree with John about not binning NB. You get stars like house bricks, or at least I do. Lovely strong signal here.

Olly

[Grinde]

Great framing and seamless blending, nice! Which of the exposuretimes works best for you?

[RobH]

Excellent and very deep result....treat it as a project over a couple of years....looking forwards to next years addition!

I agree with the comments above regarding binning narrowband.....it'll wreck your stars.

Cheers

Rob

[Beyond_Vision]

Seamlessly put together Paul, the detail is fantastic. Lets hope you get to add to his in the future.

Regards

Kevin

[PaulKummer]

Thanks all

...... Don't bin any of the narrowbands as it does not work just use longer subs.

Definitely - I have tried binning and not done very well so I avoid it now.

..... Which of the exposuretimes works best for you?

I much prefer 10 mins. I only took the 5 mins because my polar alignment was not good enough for longer:( This has happened for my last few outings so I will have to check the polar scope hasn't moved in the mount. (Or perhaps I just can't see straight anymore!)

Paul