East Veil Nebula in Hydrogen and Oxygen
The Veil Nebula is a huge object, spanning several degrees of the sky, and is the remnant of a colossal supernova explosion between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. I shot this image of its eastern portion in a dog-park parking lot with lights glaring down on me, a real acid test of narrowband imaging’s ability to defeat light pollution! About an hour and a half of 60-second exposures, evenly split between hydrogen at 656nm and oxygen at 500nm, with my trusty 70mm Stellarvue refractor.
Which slipped out of of the mount saddle and fell to the concrete that night. Twice.
10 June 2019.
The Veil Nebula is a huge object, spanning several degrees of the sky, and is the remnant of a colossal supernova explosion between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. I shot this image of its eastern portion in a dog-park parking lot with lights glaring down on me, a real acid test of narrowband imaging’s ability to defeat light pollution! About an hour and a half of 60-second exposures, evenly split between hydrogen at 656nm and oxygen at 500nm, with my trusty 70mm Stellarvue refractor.
Which slipped out of of the mount saddle and fell to the concrete that night. Twice.
10 June 2019.
The Veil Nebula is a huge object, spanning several degrees of the sky, and is the remnant of a colossal supernova explosion between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. I shot this image of its eastern portion in a dog-park parking lot with lights glaring down on me, a real acid test of narrowband imaging’s ability to defeat light pollution! About an hour and a half of 60-second exposures, evenly split between hydrogen at 656nm and oxygen at 500nm, with my trusty 70mm Stellarvue refractor.
Which slipped out of of the mount saddle and fell to the concrete that night. Twice.
10 June 2019.