Veil from very light polluted area

[bish]

Hello all,

I've just been out for a while with my new MV 24m 68. It replaces my old 26mm plossl (which I'm now keeping for my grab n go set up). I am very impressed with the MV - very nice ep to use.

Now to the point! The veil is one of my favourite DSO's, but only really from a dark site in the past, as my orange sky is so bad.

A while back I did try my LPR with the 26mm and thought I could just make out a hint of contrast where it should be, but couldn't be 100% sure. Tonight, with the MV + UHC(and the veil overhead) I could definitely see the arc shape of the veil with no doubt. M27 was much brighter with the UHC, as was M57 as you would expect. Nice to know I can see the veil from light polluted area, but can't wait to get the UHC under a dark sky.

[cotterless45]

Yo, got the same, using a Baader 2" UHC at about x40. Spotted the lovely bright arc from NGC 6995 to NGC 6992. Just about made out the Milky Way. Kept the filter in for a bright view of M27 and some planetary nebulae, neat,

Nick.

[Scooot]

Yes I need the UHC to see the veil. I was looking at it this evening, I wouldn't be able to see a thing without the filter. Even with it I can never make out the bit below 52cyg in the western veil. The furthest Eastern veil is much clearer but I can't see in between the two from home.

[bish]

It's good to see it, albeit very faint. With no UHC filter I've only seen it on trips to Kielder. Wondering whether to get an OIII too

[Paul73]

. Wondering whether to get an OIII too

Yes. Get OIII too. Big improvement on the Veil. Useful on loads of other planetaries as well.

I have both UHC and OIII. They both get plenty of use.

Paul

[John]

While a UHC will show it, an O-III is definitely the filter of choice for the Veil IMHO. It's such a great object, or set of objects really, that I reckon it's worth the price of the filter just to be able to view it well.

[bish]

Thanks for your input Paul and John. Looks like an O-III is next on my list for the autumn.

[dick_dangerous]

First time I saw it was from Greater London with a UHC - it was cool but underwhelming. Second time was through a smaller telescope but under pristine dark skies and I was blown away by the amount of detail I could get. I'm itching to get my Dobsonian out under dark skies next summer/autumn to have a second dark sky crack at it!

DD

[Daniel-K]

dark skys + any size telescope = happy stargazer  

you only live once get the lumicon or astronomik the more expensive filters i find are well worth it 

[Scooot]

Lumicon have an offer on at the moment with free worldwide shipping.

http://www.lumicon.com/store/c/19-Nebula-Light-Pollution-Filters.aspx

[bish]

The veil under a dark sky with a filter is one of the DSO's you can spend a long time looking at. Even through my old 6" with a filter it was excellent, but with the bigger scopes it was almost photographic. Been my favourite DSO ever since - even just getting a hint from the back garden

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Lovely report. A UHC filter is a great help for emission nebulae like the Veil, as is a neat wide angle EP like the superb little 24mm MV 68 deg. I have used UHC to great effect to get a number of faint nebulae from not-too-bad-but-still-suburban skies, including the Cave, Crescent and California. UHC was also instrumental in picking out the shape of the Pelican under good skies in France. Very useful piece of kit

[pyrasanth]

The veil can easily be imaged. I used an H-A filter on a Hyperstar to capture the Witches broom nebula image below.

[bish]

Great image. Was this taken from Birmingham?

[pyrasanth]

Great image. Was this taken from Birmingham?

Sorry for the late reply. Yes this was taken at my home location in Birmingham under very light polluted skies. I also have 3 sodium lights immediately under the imaging target so this really shows what narrow band filters can do for anybody with light polluted skies.

[bish]

Sorry for the late reply. Yes this was taken at my home location in Birmingham under very light polluted skies. I also have 3 sodium lights immediately under the imaging target so this really shows what narrow band filters can do for anybody with light polluted skies.

Very impressive. Living in Dudley I can appreciate how bad your sky is.

[Gadget]

Managed to see this for the first time couple weeks ago as I noticed the sky was particularly dark for once amazing to see through the eyepiece I could follow the structure for most part of it thought my sky's were really bad but if I could see that maybe they are not as bad as I thought ?

Kev