BBC Orion Project

[Uranium235]

Omg.... I sooo wouldn't want to be the person processing this one!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zymwq6f

I might chip in for a laugh though

[johnrt]

Meh, I doubt it will be as good as Tom & Olly's Orion image.

[Uranium235]

You know, thats the first thing that sprang to mind when I saw this that pic would cover it in one go.

But they're up against it by trying to combine so many different captures, too many variables - focal length, gradients, LP, dodgy stars... it will be a processing trip to hell!

[DaveS]

Yeah, what I thought, Tom and Olly've been there, done that.

Might be fun to have a go at the galaxy though

[Chris-A]

Yeah, what I thought, Tom and Olly've been there, done that.

Might be fun to have a go at the galaxy though

At 0.8 arc mins (unless I've typed the search in wrong) it is gonna need a big scope to get anything meaningful of this galaxy.

[Uranium235]

0.8'x0.8' - thats out of range of pretty much everybody under 1200mm.

[Chris-A]

With my C9.25 @ F6.3 I reckon it covers about 100 x 100 pixels. I guess you might get something out of that, but not much. And that's before we consider UK levels of dodgy seeing.

[MattJenko]

They could do worse than speak with Morten Balling, a user on AstroBin : http://www.astrobin.com/users/MortenBalling/

He has done a lot of work in combining lots of different images of various quality from many different other users to produce some of the most striking images on that site.

[ollypenrice]

They could do worse than speak with Morten Balling, a user on AstroBin : http://www.astrobin.com/users/MortenBalling/

He has done a lot of work in combining lots of different images of various quality from many different other users to produce some of the most striking images on that site.

I hadn't seen those but they're very good. Some wonderful integration times! We've done a few SGL based collaborations and working with absolutely masses of data is a different game, it really is. 

Olly

[Dave Lloyd]

I imagine they have used Orion because it's so easily recognizable and has loads of stars, nebulae etc. I'll bet they were inspired to do so in the first place by the incredible Tom/Olly masterpiece.