East viel Nebula.
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Kevin Phillips
Oct 3, 2025, 2:40:19 PMOct 3
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Had a go at the east veil nebula. I did this couple of years back.
I used Heq5 mount. Horizon 60mm duplet refractor. L enhance filter. Guided this image was taken over two nights about 10 hrs worth stacked in DSS
Process in Startools and photoshop.
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William Bottaci
Oct 10, 2025, 4:53:49 PMOct 10
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Hello Kevin
You have small tight stars which is how they should look so your guiding (tracking the telescope across the sky) is excellent. As mentioned a nice selection of colour, not always an easy thing to process.
This nebula is part of a fast expanding cloud of gas from a past supernova, and the colours come from the different gases, especially doubly ionised oxygen (O-III, turquoise) which your filter isolates, as well as the red hydrogen gas.
For those unknowing, DSS is software that combines all the images taken into one 'super' image, the idea is to remove the 'noise' resulting from it being very dark and the electronics of the camera.
The 60mm refractor is small so has a wide field (magnification/size is not everything) and many views if not objects themselves are large.
Bortle is a measure of how dark the sky is, 1 being no light pollution, going up to 9 in centre of city. Kenley is about 5 and the Milky Way can be seen on a good night, just.
Thank you for sharing.
You have small tight stars which is how they should look so your guiding (tracking the telescope across the sky) is excellent. As mentioned a nice selection of colour, not always an easy thing to process.
This nebula is part of a fast expanding cloud of gas from a past supernova, and the colours come from the different gases, especially doubly ionised oxygen (O-III, turquoise) which your filter isolates, as well as the red hydrogen gas.
For those unknowing, DSS is software that combines all the images taken into one 'super' image, the idea is to remove the 'noise' resulting from it being very dark and the electronics of the camera.
The 60mm refractor is small so has a wide field (magnification/size is not everything) and many views if not objects themselves are large.
Bortle is a measure of how dark the sky is, 1 being no light pollution, going up to 9 in centre of city. Kenley is about 5 and the Milky Way can be seen on a good night, just.
Thank you for sharing.
William
On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 at 09:18, <tcos...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Kevin
Lovely images with very nice colour processing, including a myriad of colourful stars!
Am very envious of your lovely skies there near the Black Mountains. I’m from Merthyr originally and remember some nights in the Beacons where the sky was full of stars. Not so in Oxted!
Best wishes
Tim C
Kevin PhillipsSat 4 Oct, 07:46 (6 days ago)
Thank you James
On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 at 07:04, 'drja...@aol.com' via croydonastro <croydo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Beautiful details well processed Kevin
James
On 3 Oct 2025, at 19:54, Kevin Phillips <Thewelsha...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Few nights ago, I captured the East veil nebula over two nights. This is my 2nd attempt at this target. was please how it came out. I compared it to my first go at this target, to see how much zi have improved.
Sky condition was excellent. I would say Bortle sky 4 or lower. I could see the milky way across the sky from the north east it was amazing. I later took a 30 min trip to the black mountains which is part of the Brecon beacons. Bortle sky 3 and the Milkyway was thick band across the sky, your eyes after a while could see faint stars.
Kevin
On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 at 09:18, <tcos...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Kevin
Lovely images with very nice colour processing, including a myriad of colourful stars!
Am very envious of your lovely skies there near the Black Mountains. I’m from Merthyr originally and remember some nights in the Beacons where the sky was full of stars. Not so in Oxted!
Best wishes
Tim C
Kevin PhillipsSat 4 Oct, 07:46 (6 days ago)
Thank you James
On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 at 07:04, 'drja...@aol.com' via croydonastro <croydo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Beautiful details well processed Kevin
James
On 3 Oct 2025, at 19:54, Kevin Phillips <Thewelsha...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Few nights ago, I captured the East veil nebula over two nights. This is my 2nd attempt at this target. was please how it came out. I compared it to my first go at this target, to see how much zi have improved.
Sky condition was excellent. I would say Bortle sky 4 or lower. I could see the milky way across the sky from the north east it was amazing. I later took a 30 min trip to the black mountains which is part of the Brecon beacons. Bortle sky 3 and the Milkyway was thick band across the sky, your eyes after a while could see faint stars.
Kevin
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