East side or West side? The Veil

[Icesheet]

Another target I haven't paid much attention to previously. Clear skies with a nearly full moon turned my attention to the Veil nebula for the first time. I imaged it for 3.5hrs with the Askar FRA400 and ASI2600MC but I didn't think the widefield image was so appealing, so I cropped to the West and East side of the Veil despite losing some apparent resolution. I found it hard not to push the saturation too much on these. I still think I've maybe gone too far, what do you think?

 

 

[Icesheet]

Here's the widefield for reference...

[ollypenrice]

9 hours ago, Icesheet said:

Here's the widefield for reference...

I like them all.

BTW, cropping, of itself, has no effect on resolution. In daytime photography there is a careless tendency to confuse pixel count with resolution but they are not at all the same thing.

Olly

[Icesheet]

1 hour ago, ollypenrice said:

I like them all.

BTW, cropping, of itself, has no effect on resolution. In daytime photography there is a careless tendency to confuse pixel count with resolution but they are not at all the same thing.

Olly

Thanks ☺️ 

Yeah, I did actually know this. The word ‘apparent’ was my lazy attempt at acknowledging it. Funny you should mention daytime photography. I just watched a video where a very popular landscape photographer discussed resolution in this context and it annoyed me enough to comment on his video. I’ll need to be clearer next time!

Edited November 1, 2023 by Icesheet