The Eastern Veil, HOO palette

[jtlandreneau]

Been a while since I ventured over here... made some significant equipment upgrades in the past several months

would have liked to get a lot more Oiii data, but the weather had other plans. All comments and critique are welcome!

http://www.astrobin.com/259206/

AT72ED w/ 0.8x flattener

Astronomik Ha 7nm: 72x300" bin 1x1
Astronomik OIII 12nm: 20x300" bin 1x1

Orion Atlas EQ-G

ASI1600MM-Cool

[wimvb]

Great image. It's also nice to see the new ASI being used for DSO. What do you think of this camera?

[Iainp]

Having spent the night trying to capture the merest whisper of the veil (western edge) this is just hurting my eyes!  . Seriously, that's a superb image,

Iain 

[swag72]

This is looking very nice indeed

[jtlandreneau]

27 minutes ago, wimvb said:

Great image. It's also nice to see the new ASI being used for DSO. What do you think of this camera?

 

Thanks! I think the camera is great. It has really made coming out of the DSLR world and into monochrome pretty easy. I was used to shooting 10-15 minute narrowband shots with the Canon, 5 minutes seems to be the max I need with the 1600. I'm sure its not the best on the market, but for someone just starting with mono imaging, catch beat the performance for the price

[jtlandreneau]

5 minutes ago, swag72 said:

This is looking very nice indeed

Thanks Sara! I must admit, your color palette choice/application is kinda the inspiration for my post processing

[laudropb]

Very nice image.

[Rodd]

10 hours ago, jtlandreneau said:

 

Thanks! I think the camera is great. It has really made coming out of the DSLR world and into monochrome pretty easy. I was used to shooting 10-15 minute narrowband shots with the Canon, 5 minutes seems to be the max I need with the 1600. I'm sure its not the best on the market, but for someone just starting with mono imaging, catch beat the performance for the price

I am seriously thinking of getting a 1600mmcool.  Everything looks great except the 10 bit (or is it 12).  How is this aspect-0-its the only thing holding me back.  They say that stacking will recover the dynamic range that 16 bit provides.

[wimvb]

Should be 12 bits, same as most dslr. ASI174 is 14 bits I believe. But has smaller chip.

[PatrickGilliland]

Super outing for the upgrades nice work with the processing as well.

Paddy

[Guest]

Excellent work - I've ordered the 1600 too and it's encouraging to see you found the transition to mono easy :-) I've been imaging with a QHY8 OSC for a few years, great fun and ok results but its time for a new challenge  

David