NGC 6992 - Eastern Veil Nebula

[steppenwolf]

I've wanted a crack at this one for some time but conditions haven't allowed - tonight, however, there was a window of opportunity and I could see the band of the Milky Way stretching off into the distance which was a good sign! The window was closed by cloud after a while but not before I had got 14 subs. of 400 seconds each. I hope you like it. SXVF-M25C and Skywatcher 80ED Refractor.

[MrEd]

Hi Steve

All i can say is Lovely

I love the detail and colour mate.

Spent that lovely night drift aligning myself

Ed

[Trevor]

Steve, now that is very nice.

[steppenwolf]

Spent that lovely night drift aligning myself

Ahh, drift aligning, one of my favourite pastimes, especially on a night when you can actually see the Milky Way

[SteveL]

Lovely! Is the Veil predominantly Ha or OIII in its emission line?

The Veil is about to clear my roofline at home, so its getting further up my list of targets.

[markcol]

Lovely shot Steve, is that a crop or the whole F.O.V. with the SXVF-M25C/ED80 combo?

Mark

[steppenwolf]

Is the Veil predominantly Ha or OIII in its emission line?

Steve, to the best of my knowledge this object is rich is OIII

is that a crop or the whole F.O.V. with the SXVF-M25C/ED80 combo?

This is a crop of the original FOV and the resultant image is displayed at 43% of the original size

[froggy]

This is a superb image.

Vince

[narrowbandpaul]

i would say that Ha is still more dominant, than the O[iII], but both are strong

Paul

[Paxo]

The veil complex has been considered by most be rich in OIII. The recent article by Greg Parker in either Astronomy Now or Sky at Night, (can't remeber which right now) regarding shooting a mosaic of the whole complex confirms this.

Steve..

[centroid]

I like that Steve!!, its an excellent result.

You are certainly making good use of that new camera.

BTW, just noticed the time of your 'post', so I guess you must have got a 'late pass'.

Dave

[steppenwolf]

BTW, just noticed the time of your 'post', so I guess you must have got a 'late pass'.

Hi Dave, I'm paying for it now though!!

[ncjunk]

A very poor attempt...nah just kidding, nice pic!

(now come on steve you must get bored of all the good comments)

Neil C

[Beyond_Vision]

That is an absolutley beautiful capture Steve with great detail and colour and pin point focus.

Regards

Kevin

[NickH]

Blimey that's nice!

[barkis]

It is a very lovely Image of a delicate looking structure. Although the principal is the veil, I hope the rest of the occupants of this Image are noted too. Just look at the number of stars there are.

Super result Steve.

Ron.

[MartinB]

Another gem of an image Steve. Nice to see you getting some returns on the investment

[mdstuart]

So as a novice with a 130mm reflector, I cannot see anything on this object. I presume I need to get a OIII filter, but I cannot find any cheap used ones.

I presume you also cannot "see" anything either but just line up the scope to the right RA and DEC with the drive running, take some images and then check on the laptop???

:?

[steppenwolf]

I presume I need to get a OIII filter,

An OIII filter will certainly work for visual work on this object.

presume you also cannot "see" anything either but just line up the scope to the right RA and DEC with the drive running, take some images and then check on the laptop???

That is essentially true, I slew to where the object should be and then take a test image with the camera at its most sensitive setting (high ISO number for a DSLR or 'binned' with a CCD) and 'stretch' the image outrageously to check that it is indeed there.

[narrowbandpaul]

its good fun stretching an image to reveal what you've captured...I'm like a kid at christmas

Paul

[Tim]

That is REALLY pretty. Love the crispness and cleaness of that one.

[jcm]

Very nice , Steve.

Both our images show the same colour variations , so we must be doing something right

John