Mosaic - A Start

[martin_h]

Been thinking about this one for a while now, and, having a clear night decided to make a start....it may never get finished!!!

So far - 8 frames (4 across, 2 down) of single 15 min shots just to prove the concept and make some registration frames.

Straight from the camera, stretched to maximun with no calibration frames(yet)....

[daz]

Nice start Martin!

What did you use for aligning the frames?

[Gina]

Great mosaic Which scope did you use or did you use a camera lens? If so what FL and stop?

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Amazing shot, really amazing.

[martin_h]

Daz - aligning the frames.......MK1 eyeball and All's reticule, pick a star on the edge of the frame, put the reticule over it, move scope/star untill star is on opposite side of frame.

I use MS Ice to join them all up

Gina - Scope - Good old ED80 and QHY9 CCD.

I want to add another row on the bottom, by my calculations(guess) I should get the Tulip Nebula in the (new) bottom left frame

[Quatermass]

wooo nice

[Ganymede12]

Awsome image! Great detail but what's with the white horizontal line at the bottom left?

[martin_h]

Awsome image! Great detail but what's with the white horizontal line at the bottom left?

As they are all just single frames I managed to catch a satellite in that one....it will dissapear with more frames added

[BigBlueOne]

Hi Martin, Fabulous image just makes me ask where's ET he must be in there somewhere surely.

BigBlueOne.

[Willarnold]

Awesome image! There is a lot of detail in there

[htj]

Wauv, very nice. Shame about the satelite trail. Was this taken with an Ha filter or just pure lum?

[martin_h]

All Ha

[fwm891]

Lovely image Martin, and a great base to build from. What telescope/lens/camera combo have you used on this. Even for an 8 frame montage each patch seems too wide for any thing other than a short fract or camera lens...?

[martin_h]

Lovely image Martin, and a great base to build from. What telescope/lens/camera combo have you used on this. Even for an 8 frame montage each patch seems too wide for any thing other than a short fract or camera lens...?

ED80 with reducer and QHY9 mono