Pelican / North American Nebula 12 Panel Mosaic in Ha

[tony]

It seems like its taken forever to get this far, the first sub was taken on June 5th and the last on July 31st, some nights only getting one or two subs before the cloud arrived aswell as work in the morning too, only now processed as I have been trying to learn the PI Gradient Merge Mosaic and my head still hurts   

Apart from levels and curves in PS the rest of the post processing was done in PI, namely the one used by David Ault on the Astro Imaging Channel, a really big learning curve to start with, even more of a challenge as this was such a large mosaic, but  I'm really happy with the end result. 

I am in the process of topping up each panel to 5hrs  atm too which I'm hoping will make a big difference to the final result.

So, for now this is 12 panels Ha with the astrodon 3nm, 2 hrs per panel @ 1200secs, gear used in my sig.

Full res version on Astrobin here http://www.astrobin.com/full/204011/0/

[xtreemchaos]

thats a great image mate,smashing detail.thanks for sharing.charl.

[Nicho]

Wow Tony thats a cracker !

Some great bits round the wall and pelican you dont see very often welldone .

Nick

[laudropb]

Very nice detailed image. Thanks for posting.

[tony]

Thankyou.

[MattJenko]

This is great, don't think I have ever seen it in this scale - magic.

[gingergeek]

awesome work

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

That is superb!