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Vela Supernova remnant 4 panel mosaic, gmadkat
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Vela Supernova remnant 4 panel mosaic

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Vela Supernova remnant 4 panel mosaic

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This is one of the most fascinating and massive southern hemisphere targets, the Vela Supernova remnant covers 8 degrees of the sky and has some incredible features. It is a messy region and overcrowded with a lot of amazing features and a challenge to get depth and not make it look untidy! I am not convinced I had any success on those fronts!

Located 815 light years away, the region is the remnants of a star that went supernova around 11,000 years ago.
This 4 panel wide field mosaic is centered on the area around the nebula Gum 12 and covers only a portion of the Vela SNR.

Imaged in LRGB and Ha on the Planewave DR 350 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.
Image acquisition and preprocessing: Mike Selby at throughlightandtime.com
Thank you to Mike for the incredible data which took a lot of effort to plan and acquire, and piece the mosaic together.

Processed by me in Pixinsight and Photoshop
The nebula was processed separately and stars separately, the tiff size was over 500MB approximately! Took a while for me to preserve the details and color through the dense star field that I reduced significantly. I added a liberal amount of Ha on top of the RGB and used a blend of Ha and RGB Lum extract for details.
I do not usually share starless images, but for this one, I felt the starless shows the incredible details in the nebulosity in this amazing region!! It really enthralled me! I might add it as a revision to illustrate this.

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