7 Hours on the Veil Nebula in wideband

[powerlord]

The same night the 200pds was imaging Pickering's Triangle in NB, the redcat and another asi2600 was shooting the whole Veil Nebula in wideband. With 40% moon, it was not ideal, but it was far enough away to not seem to impact it much. I've shot Veil many times before, but never for such a long time in broadband, so it was nice to see some dust and dimmer features coming out. I also had to restart the edit when I realised I'd captured a galaxy on the right, and cropped half of it off the first time - so I restarted from scratch and kept it in - I like how it's just sitting in that valley of dust.

I tried to maximise my subs for this more than I would usually - I've been doing that more often with broadband recently - maybe overflowing the wells of the brightest stars, but managing to get more faint details? These were 5 min subs - 7 hours of em.

Editing wise - lovely as they are - on shots like this the stars just take over  - there's just so many of em. So I applied some curves, luminosity layering, etc to try and find a happy medium.

 

[ONIKKINEN]

Surprisingly dusty, nice one. Dont see this one too often in a broader palette, usually just narrowband.