Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Vela (Vel)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2645  ·  NGC 2659  ·  The star e Vel
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Vela SNR, George Hatfield
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Vela SNR

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Vela SNR, George Hatfield
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Vela SNR

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The data for this LRGB  image are from T. Jittasaiyapan (2017, Thailand) and consisted of 6.8 hours of R, G, B, and L subs plus 3.5 hours of Ha.   The imaging system consisted of a Takahashi FSQ106 equipped with an SGIB STX 16803 3 camera.   This was a difficult image to process because the green subs all showed extreme elongation, which made stacking with the R and B subs difficult.  It proved difficult to remove the stars from the RGB with StarX, but Starnet++ provided a decent starless image, which was critical to bringing out the dim SNR.   The Ha was not incorporated into the RGB but was included in the super luminance, which included all subs.  This was used to create the LRGB image.  Aside from Starnet++, the processing was done using Pixinsight and, to a lesser degree, Photoshop.  GraXpert was used to remove gradients.  The image was reduced in size by 50% (resampled) to make the star problems less noticeable.

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Vela SNR, George Hatfield