Heart Nebula - 4 panel mosaic.

[Dave Smith]

This consists of around 4 hours in 10 min subs for each panel in Ha taken through my Megrez 90 scope and 0.8x FR with an Atik 460Ex mono camera.
The hubble palette colour is from an image I did last year through a Canon 200mm f2.8 lens. So there must be 20 hours plus of exposure and it feels like a similar amount of time for the processing, in particular the stitching. To cut a long story short I tried Microsoft ICE, Registar, AutoPano Pro, Canon stitching progam but the only one that I found would stitch without the seams showing was ICE but only if I did two at a time.



A larger version can be seen here http://astrosnaps.co.uk/HSTimage03L.jpg

Dave

[Paul73]

Spectacular. Worth every minute!!

Not sure if you will have the data, but it might be worth trying a version with a bit more framing starfield.

Cracking image.

Paul

[Dave Smith]

Thanks Paul. I am sorry but that is it. I have no intention of going for a 9 panel mosaic

Dave

[assouptro]

Absolutely stunning Dave

Thanks for sharing

Bryan

[bogdog]

great shot and colours,looks like a view through to another sky

[The_Sarge]

Excellent image Dave.

I just hope I can get somewhere near that quality when my SBIG camera finally arrives!

Sarge

[lensman57]

Ooh_La_La.

A.G

[symesie04]

A gorgeous effort Dave

[Davey-T]

Thanks Paul. I am sorry but that is it. I have no intention of going for a 9 panel mosaic

Dave

Super image Dave, I think you do the Soul now and make a BIG mosaic

Dave

[Dave Smith]

Thanks everyone for your kind comments.

@Davey-T  - but I have already done that in July 2013 when I first had this camera. http://astrosnaps.co.uk/HeartSoul-01s.jpg

but that was with my Megrez 72 with it's wider FOV

Dave

[Davey-T]

Very nice Dave, link didn't work but found it from sig link.

Dave

[Dave Smith]

Thanks Dave - link works now. It objected to having & in the file name.

Dave

[xtreemchaos]

wow outstanding shot mate, thanks for sharing.

[Dave Smith]

wow outstanding shot mate, thanks for sharing.

Many thanks xtreemchaos

Dave

[Fay]

Very good Dave, one of your best!!

Fay

[frostynixon]

Very nice image! The only thing i would change is the saturation (a bit too high for my taste ).

[Dave Smith]

Many thanks Fay and frostynixon. I have tried with less saturation but prefer it as it is.

Dave