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Vela Wide-Field SHO, Brian Boyle
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Vela Wide-Field SHO

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Vela Wide-Field SHO

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Description

I am about to head to Australia, as the hermit kingdom New Zealand is relaxing its border controls.  There is no saying that they won''t immediately clamp down again, so I might not get back.  Hence this post as a work in progress.  [Shades of Captain Oates: I am just going out.  I may not be back for some time]

Of late, I have been doubling down on doing parallel imaging runs, both with my new toy the TS Hypergraph8 and my almost as new toy, a Nikon f2 200mm.

As you can imagine, this leads to a number of mistakes - and last night was no exception - losing at least two hors to a poorly focused lens.  Nevertheless I persevered through 90% moon to produce this image.  

I have long wanted to do a narrow band mosaic of the Vela (multi)SNR complex.  With the 200m lens, it allows me to short-circuit the mosaic making process at longer focal lengths, albeit substituting its own problems with working at f2.

Despite being a work in progress (I lost the [SII] due to the focus problem) I am not unhappy with the results so far.

30 x 300sec: Ha
30 x 300sec: [OIII]
30 x 300sec [SII]

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  • Vela Wide-Field SHO, Brian Boyle
    Original
  • Vela Wide-Field SHO, Brian Boyle
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  • Vela Wide-Field SHO, Brian Boyle
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  • Vela Wide-Field SHO, Brian Boyle
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  • Final
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B

Description: Added in the [SII] data. Interesting to note in re-inforces the Halpha/[SII] concentration towards the south of the image.

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C

Title: Vela Wide-field: HSO version

Description: HSO version, with [OIII] added as luminance layer

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D

Description: Tweaked star reduction and stretch

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E

Description: Using the RC Astro tools

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Vela Wide-Field SHO, Brian Boyle