Heart Mosaic

[Datalord]

Not sure whether it qualifies for "widefield", but this is my first mosaic. For various reasons I ended up having to compose this of 3 separate shootings, with the final original being 5000*4600 pixels.

It's collected over 3 nights in early december. It's a total of about 16 hours of 5 minute exposures on my RASA with the QHY (gain 100, offset 75, 40 darks, 40 flats, 40 bias). Processed in DSS and PS, stitched with Microsoft ICE.

[Dinglem]

Even if it doesn't qualify it's a great image, I need to practice the "simpler" parts of this dark art before I even think about doing mosaics.