Western and Eastern Veil (Cygnus loop)

[gorann]

What to do under a full moon? Not the best for weak and rarely imaged nebulosity so I went for a 2-panel mosaic with my dual-RASA rig of these very bright and iconic nebulae and collected Ha and Oiii data with the IDAS NBZ filter over two nights. Starless processing of the nebulosity using Star XTerminator in PS.

Quite a lot of data: 496 x 3 minutes, so about 25 hours. Please zoom in.

Is it only me that sees a car on fire in the top half of the image, with Western Veil as the roof and Pickering's triangle as the engine?

Edited October 15, 2022 by gorann

[Elp]

So, much, depth.

[gorann]

14 minutes ago, Elp said:

So, much, depth.

Thanks! Yes 25 hours at f/2 helps even under a full moon.

Edited October 15, 2022 by gorann

[Stuart1971]

Beautiful, and no, you are not the only one who sees the car on fire, I saw it as soon as I read what you had written….👏🏻👍🏻

[Roy Foreman]

So did I . Nice image lots of depth and colour.

[gorann]

8 hours ago, Stuart1971 said:

Beautiful, and no, you are not the only one who sees the car on fire, I saw it as soon as I read what you had written….👏🏻👍🏻

Thanks a lot Stuart! Glad that you see the same thing!

[gorann]

2 hours ago, Roy Foreman said:

So did I . Nice image lots of depth and colour.

Thanks Roy, much appreciated!

[callisto]

Wowsers... excellent 👍

[gorann]

1 minute ago, callisto said:

Wowsers... excellent 👍

Thank a lot Callisto😁

[teoria_del_big_bang]

9 hours ago, Stuart1971 said:

Beautiful, and no, you are not the only one who sees the car on fire, I saw it as soon as I read what you had written….👏🏻👍🏻

 

3 hours ago, Roy Foreman said:

So did I . Nice image lots of depth and colour.

And me 🙂 Never noticed that before but now I will see it everytime.

Great image, as always  Göran

Steve

[wimvb]

Great image, Göran. Now the real question is, what make and model are we talking about? Obviously some sort of sedan.

[gorann]

1 hour ago, teoria_del_big_bang said:

 

And me 🙂 Never noticed that before but now I will see it everytime.

Great image, as always  Göran

Steve

 

1 hour ago, wimvb said:

Great image, Göran. Now the real question is, what make and model are we talking about? Obviously some sort of sedan.

Thank you both! I think we are talking about hot rod, so something like this.

Cheers, Göran

[Elp]

Chrysler Crossfire?

[ollypenrice]

Truly original view of a familiar target. I particularly love that transparent window of, I guess, sky swept clear by the shock front.

Olly

[tomato]

Awesome, a crash and burn Veil Nebula👍🏼It could be a Ford Anglia…

[wimvb]

7 minutes ago, tomato said:

Ford Anglia

Ha ha! That would be the second of this model flying across the sky. And the other also got a banged up look eventually.

[gorann]

53 minutes ago, ollypenrice said:

Truly original view of a familiar target. I particularly love that transparent window of, I guess, sky swept clear by the shock front.

Olly

Thanks a lot Olly! I was thinking the same thing about that empty space in the center. I did look for dust there and there were essentially nothing to stretch, so it must have been blown away.

[gorann]

43 minutes ago, tomato said:

Awesome, a crash and burn Veil Nebula👍🏼It could be a Ford Anglia…

Thanks a lot Steve! Maybe that is why we do not see them anymore - Western Veil was their final destination.

[Stuart1971]

1 hour ago, wimvb said:

Ha ha! That would be the second of this model flying across the sky. And the other also got a banged up look eventually.

Wow, brings back memories, my first car, and it was that colour too….without the rust, I might add….