Western Veil Nebula

We astronomers are used to time travel, imagine if you could travel back, way back say 8000 years or so. You would have been witness to the supernova that created the Veil Nebula. A new star in that night sky would have been brighter than any other and visible for months. Fast forward to today and we see the remnant of that stellar explosion still moving at over a million miles an hour through space. This is not a true colour image but a bi colour capturing emissions of Hydrogen & Oxygen wavelengths..... This is My first Bi-colour project and a wonderful target it is too.

Photo Details

• Total Exposure: 4 Hours, 57 Minutes (64 Frames) 30x 3Mins Ha 54x 3 mins Oiii
• Image Acquisition: ZWO ASIair Pro
• Calibration Frames: No Calibration
• Stacking and Calibration: DeepSkyStacker
• Processing: Adobe Photoshop 2020, Starnet ++ 
• Size: 2.26 x 1.38 deg 
• Pixel Scale: 1.41 arcsec/pixel

Aurora from Norfolk

Within minutes of an update from Aurorawatch UK, the camera and tripod were in the car and I was on the road. Well for about 3 minutes anyway arriving at my location of choice just a quarter of a mile from home looking out over fields to a reasonably dark north facing sky. I could not see anything visually as I set up the equipment but I could see the clouds coming. My first image captured was a highlight to what would come through over the next few minutes. Wonderful to see and just the second imaging capture from Norfolk in my 21 years living here. 

As soon as it came it went and disappeared quite quickly.

The last time was 27th Feb 2014 which for an hour put on a much better show.

See what I mean. Anyway looking forward to the next x class flare.