90 minutes Veil

[david_taurus83]

Inspired by Friday nights success of actually observing both east and western sides of the Veil, I thought I'd take the chance to image it with my new camera lense. When I say new, I mean the vintage Vivitar 135mm F2.8 scoured off Ebay for less than 30 quid. It was a nice change to have a simple set up for imaging. Just the tripod, mount and camera on a dovetail bar. No guiding, wires, laptop etc. Despite the almost full moon mocking me with a bright halo highlighting the high cloud last night, i pulled out more detail than i expected for such short subs. Stars are out of focus but they were not the objective. I'm happy with it. Will spend more time on this another time.

 

60 x 90s subs ISO800 unguided

15 darks, 20 flats, 30 bias.

DSS stacked and 15 minute process in Pixinsight. Just enough for a casual project.

[JohnSadlerAstro]

That's turned out really well-some beautiful colouring in the veil. I went simple last night, for some relaxing planetary. This time of year complex DSO setups really aren't sensible.  

Did you use any narrowband filters, at all? Or is it just plain modified OSC? I'd like to try this object once the nights start up again.

John

[david_taurus83]

7 minutes ago, JohnSadlerAstro said:

That's turned out really well-some beautiful colouring in the veil. I went simple last night, for some relaxing planetary. This time of year complex DSO setups really aren't sensible.  

Did you use any narrowband filters, at all? Or is it just plain modified OSC? I'd like to try this object once the nights start up again.

John

Thanks John. Just the Canon 600d. I lifted the red a little to enhance the nebula and used an inverted star mask to reduce the star field. Yes I agree, there's not enough dark sky now for a fully fledged DSO setup. Anyway, I'd need a 9 panel mosaic to fit this in if I used my 200p!

[MarsG76]

There's a lot of the remnant punching through... imagine what you could pull out if you spend a few full nights gathering subs of it.