Sunday, July 4, 2021

Starting up the Eastern Veil Nebula

Starting up the Eastern Veil Nebula

 Since I've gotten my monochrome astronomy camera (294mm) I find myself going back to take images again that I've done in One Shot Color (OSC.) One of the targets is the amazing supernova remnant known as the Eastern Veil complex covering six full moons on the sky as seen from Earth, and resides about 2,100 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus

This complex is a leftover from a supernova that exploded nearly 8,000 years ago. It gets it name from the seemingly delicate, draped filaments that entwine through the entire Eastern and Western parts of it. There is also another part of it known as Pickering's Triangle.

So, my first reimage is with Hydrogen Alpha and Oxygen iii combined in the HOO palette. H to red; O to green; O to blue.

Eastern Veil in HOO palette

Eastern Veil in Oiii

Eastern Veil in Ha

I'm collecting Sulfur 2 currently to make it a true Hubble Palette.

Galactic Ha Experiment with Bodes and Cigar Galaxies with a One Shot Color camera

 I thought it might be a worthy experiment to see how the L-Ultimate filter could add to the Ha detail of galaxies using a OSC Camera. So th...