Vela Wide-Field SHO (Brian Boyle)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Vela (Vel) · Contains: A Vel · B Vel · C Vel · D Vel · IC 2395 · NGC 2626 · NGC 2659 · NGC 2660 · NGC 2670 · NGC 2671 · NGC 2736 · PK260+00.1 · PK260+00.2 · PK262-04.1 · PK263+00.1 · PK264-03.1 · PK265-02.1 · PK265-04.1 · PK266+00.1 · PK266+01.1 · PK266-00.1 · PK266-01.1 · PK267-03.1 · PK269-03.1 · Pencil Nebula · Vela · e Vel · f Vel · g Vel · n Vel

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Vela Wide-Field SHO

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Vela Wide-Field SHO

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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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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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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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RA (center)	08h43m03s.41
RA (top/left)	09h07m37s.81
RA (top/right)	08h32m56s.18
RA (bottom/right)	08h14m42s.22
RA (bottom/left)	08h55m31s.73

Dec (center)	-45°48′57″.2
Dec (top/left)	-41°38′28″.6
Dec (top/right)	-40°01′09″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	-49°36′39″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	-51°33′02″.9

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