Eastern Veil Nebula - NCG-6992

[twilit hawk]

Espirit 100, QHY-268M, Antlia 3nm filters.
81x300s Ha, 60x300s Oiii, and some RGB stars.
It's far from perfect, but I'm done messing with it

[pseudo wasp]

sad you couldnt mosaic for the comp

[twilit hawk]

Last thing I wanted to deal with was a mosaic, and certainly not for the comp. It wouldn't have won anyways. Community voted comps in this discord are kinda pointless anyways.

but I wont continue my endless rant about that

[carmine orbit]

but why?

i wanna know

also btw, great image

[pseudo wasp]

I really thought you'd get more votes

[carmine orbit]

do you know why?

[twilit hawk]

I am curious your thoughts on why.

[carmine orbit]

Idk, I don’t have a opinion why public voted comps are pointless

I wanna know why you think that. That’s it.

[twilit hawk]

It's kinda a long story. You'd have to look at some of the past comps. One in particular stands out, it was a Rosette competition. There were quite a few highly detailed great photos, and then there was one that had the same amount of detail, but it was cropped down to appear like it was 'zoomed in' and was a better image. I'm not saying there was anything wrong with that persons image, but it won by a landslide. There were better images. Most experienced folks were kinda left speechless after that one.

Basically folks aren't really paying attention to the details, they're just voting for the flashiest image.

[maiden onyx]

That's what I started seeing tbh

But, I figured thats just how it was going to be.

[maiden onyx]

Your veil images are insane

The detail is incredibly immersive

This area here is awesome

Looks like a thin lace of Ha falling like a waterfall