Veil, 13 hours with the FSQ.

[ollypenrice]

Hi All,

I posted the RGB earlier. Then over two nights I shot 2 hours per panel of O111 and Ha, combined them in the trusty Registar and applied them as luminance, trying to keep the natural colour as much as possible. It has come out at a rather monstrous 11 Meg so I'll put a link to Flickr.

Flickr Photo Download: CYGNUS LOOP

Olly

[ashenlight]

That is amazing Olly, congratulations - a stunning image. So much colour, so much going on, a plethora of detail. Lovely framing too, a sense of balance to the image. Nice one

[Aza]

Thats gorgeous Olly!!

Love it.

What's with the patch of sky to the right of the witches broom?

It looks a bit different and out of place, or is it my eyes?

[Psychobilly]

Yep thats a Stunner Olly

How long are your "nights" at them moment?

Peter....

[ollypenrice]

Arran,

You mean the brownish patch? It's not your eyes, it's one of the most fascinating aspects of the Veil complex. The supernova which went off between where the two main arcs now are sent a blast out into space. This swept up much of the random interstellar gas and dust and drove it ahead of the shock front. The result is that the sky 'inside' the arcs has been swept clean and is very transparent - higher star count - while that outside is unswept and possibly even heavily contaminated by stuff driven before the main front, hence opaque. Or so I understand.

Peter, we have been getting 4 hours a night over the shortest nights of the year. I have Tom O'DOnoghue staying and so between us we are getting 8 hours' data a night. Not bad! It's a shame we don't have a third mount because we have everything else for a third setup bar that.

Cheers,

Olly.

[Beyond_Vision]

Beautifully captured Olly, well worth all the time and effort you have put into it.

Regards

Kevin

[Aza]

Very interesting indeed, your image demonstrates it very well.

I didnt think you would have left a gradient in

[RobH]

Absolutely cracking image Olly. One of the best I've ever seen of this fascinating region

Cheers

Rob

[themos]

Fascinating! it looks like the outside arcs are opposite each other in left-right direction whereas the two middle arcs are opposite each other in a far-near direction. It reminds me of the remnant of the 1987A supernova.

[harry page]

Hi Olly

Very fine image indeed you do very well at this time of the year to get any imaging done:icon_salut:

Don't suppose you have any duff ones to show us go on you must have one somewhere

Harry Page

[Les Tilly]

very nice Olly I think I forgot how to set my stuff up had rain for this whole month

Les

[daz]

That's an amazing image Olly!!

[steve51450]

Olly

that's one hell of a cracking image, so much detail for such a widefield

[steppenwolf]

Stunning image, Olly, one of the best I have seen of this region.

[ollypenrice]

Thanks you, good people. Just as an aside, here's a rendition of the combined narrowband in monochrome. I reckon it beats the colour for structural detail.

Flickr Photo Download: Veil, deep narrowband.

Olly

[paulobao]

Nicely done Olly .

Congratulations for this great widefield picture of the Veil.

Regards,

paulo

[Tim]

hmm, not bad I 'spose.........

Simply gorgeous Olly, more than worth the exposure time, that's a poster if ever I saw one.

[MikeD]

Top drawer stuff the detail is stunning.:headbang: and

Congrats.

Mike.

[Imahumanbeing]

FANTASTIC Olly!!!! I really like the mono version, both are SUPERB!

All the best

Jamie

[Lester]

Excellent image Olly, thanks for sharing it.

All the best.

[John]

Thats a fantastic image of one of my favorite DSO's Olly - thanks for posting the link to it.

All those stars - there's got to be life out there somewhere surely !.

John

[RichieJarvis]

APOD material - lovely Olly....

[Andrew*]

Stupendous. Definitely my fave DSO and one of the best renderings I've ever seen. Higher res available?

Just love it:hello2:

Andrew

[MartinB]

Sorry to come to this so late Olly. That really is a stunningly gorgeous image.

[ron.s.g]

great pic olly will have to seriously consider a holiday in france.

regards ron.s.g