Atacama BackYard Observatory - Established March 27, 2019

the Vela Supernova Remnant

What you see here represents the culmination of a lot of effort! Firstly, the image acquisition took about 200 hours of data collection using LRGB and Ha filters. The telescopic field of view was too narrow to fit this all in one image, so a 9 panel mosaic was required. Then of course were the hours of post processing the data, mostly in Pixinsight with a few Photoshop edits mixed in. Click through for a higher resolution view. The field of view is about 6 degrees square, double the apparent size of Andromeda Galaxy.