ngc6992 Veil Neb in Hubble palette

[ChrisLX200]

So my final image of this object, a total of 2hr 20min H-alpha, 3hrs OIII and 3hrs SII. Processed mainly in StarTools but some steps completed in AstroArt5 and Photoshop.

I'm posting the full frame image plus two crops.

ChrisH

[kalasinman]

Thank you Chris. "Like" doesn't come close.

[peter shah]

sweet...nice colour and detail

[swag72]

Super detail in there, what a beauty!

[Stargazer33]

Very nice!

[ChrisLX200]

Thank you everyone, glad no-one mentioned that nasty word 'mosaic'! because I'm going to move on to some other targets

ChrisH

[astro mick]

Wow,that is good.

Exerllent work.

Mick.

[Gina]

Really superb   That clearly took you many nights to capture

[ChrisLX200]

Thanks Mick and Gina   I was lucky being able to image right through just 3 nights.

This composition seems to have lost some of the crispyness of the mono images but I think I know how to get it back - a project for a cloudy evening I think!

ChrisH

[Dave Smith]

WOW - that is beautiful Chris. The detail and colours are amazing. :icon_salut:

Dave

[ChrisLX200]

Thanks Dave, appreciate it

ChrisH

[Uranium235]

This composition seems to have lost some of the crispyness of the mono images but I think I know how to get it back - a project for a cloudy evening I think!

Try combing in both raw Ha, SII OIII masters, monoise it, process as normal to get it crispy, then layer the above colour version in. Might work, might not work - it depends on whether you have had to equalise the histogram or not in your colour version (if you have, you may run into noise).

Good work anyway

[ChrisLX200]

Try combing in both raw Ha, SII OIII masters, monoise it, process as normal to get it crispy, then layer the above colour version in. Might work, might not work - it depends on whether you have had to equalise the histogram or not in your colour version (if you have, you may run into noise).

Good work anyway

By coincidence I just finished trying that   I wrung some more detail and fainter stars out of it but then lost quality/smoothness somewhere along the line. This was a complete re-stack and process of the lum part, then added in the colour, then tried to re-balance brightness/contrast/colour. Didn't work too well.

ChrisH

[RobH]

Beautiful crisp image Chris.....ticks all the boxes for me!

[Mav359]

Great shot

Veil almost looks electrical in nature i think