Wide Veil, deeper.

[ollypenrice]

Since I've spent most of the day on this devil I'll award myself a new thread! I just kept trying to tease in the NB data without losing colour sanity.

Olly

Bigger http://ollypenrice.s...sRGB web-X3.jpg

Cheers,

Olly

[LukeSkywatcher]

Well done Olly. That is one spectacular image. You should be very proud.

[WaveSoarer]

Amazing.

[jetstream]

Another great image,I'm amazed at what astro imagers can do.I have a question....is it possible during processing to make the background jet back and leave the rest(say the Veil image)?These pictures are works of art to me.....maybe someday

[ollypenrice]

You could make the background jet black (which it isn't), but when you have spent many nights collecting the faintest light from what seems at first like background you would hardly want to do so! The background sky between the two main arcs is darker than the sky around the outside of the arcs, notably on the right of the image where it is far from dark. This is because the shockwave which created the arcs has swept out the inner part of the sky, making it more transparent. The background of the swept part is blacker than the rest and the star count is higher because it is more transparent, revealing more distant stars. If you black clip the image you will destroy this key bit of information.

For me the whole point of imaging (as opposed to visual observing) is to find what cannot be seen by eye. If only it could!

Olly

[Velvet]

wonderful again Olly

Velvet

[tich]

Cracking image Olly

[kirkster501]

Wonderful. Wonderful. A sight to behold!

Agreed about the black skies. When folks try to make the sky too dark it looks a little unreal to my eyes.

[Avdhoeven]

That's a marvellous image!

[swag72]

You have really got the faint stuff out of there Olly, that is just getting better and better. Surely now there's nothing more to come? A stonking image.

[Steve Ward]

Stunning work sir ...

Can't get the link to the bigger version to work though ... ?

[ollypenrice]

Stunning work sir ...

Can't get the link to the bigger version to work though ... ?

Sorry, see if this works. It's the biggest of the JPEGS. http://ollypenrice.smugmug.com/Other/Best-of-Les-Granges/22435624_WLMPTM#!i=2638463893&k=9wVtJF7&lb=1&s=O

Olly

[Steve Ward]

Wow , that's even more mindblowing ..... ..... Thanks Olly .....

[fwm891]

Spectacular, superb, great, wow... You've just done it again Olly. Totally different to the original posting, fantastic...

[Gina]

That is certainly better Olly A wonderful image

[jetstream]

Sorry, see if this works. It's the biggest of the JPEGS. http://ollypenrice.s...wVtJF7&lb=1&s=O

Olly

I just made this my desktop background,phenomenal.

[twotter]

A massive wispy question mark.....great image

[Mark72]

Larger image looks amazing! Agree about black point, lot of information is lost when it's set too low.

Mark

[sloz1664]

I take my hat off to you Olly for persevering. You've dragged out even more faint detail.

A truly remarkable image.

Steve