It looks as if it could be done...

[ollypenrice]

Olly

[Swoop1]

I don't know Olly- looks like you missed some bits 😉

[tomato]

Please let me know when your Deep Sky Photographic Atlas is going to be published so I can put my name down...👍

[tomato]

Why is the night sky black? Better not ask that question to Paul and Olly...👍

[Elp]

Doesn't mean you have to...

[ollypenrice]

1 hour ago, Elp said:

Doesn't mean you have to...

An interesting theory but what did Hillary say about Everest?

lly

[Elp]

43 minutes ago, ollypenrice said:

An interesting theory but what did Hillary say about Everest?

lly

"That's a nice mountain"?

[ollypenrice]

9 minutes ago, Elp said:

"That's a nice mountain"?

Because it was there...

[Elp]

I'm sure we all look forward to the result with anticipation. Being able to do such large mosaics takes some doing.

[WolfieGlos]

Simply not fair. Our weather doesn’t want to let us image this in widefield in a single panel, never mind a double (or three?) digit mosaic!

Stunning work Olly 👍

[Paul M]

Thats's nice. But if I had to criticise, the top left blank box isn't square. The r/h edge isn't vertical.

Pretty much ruins it for me..

Oops, nearly forgot the 🤣🤣

On a serious note, I don't think I've ever seen that set of objects presented quite so spectacularly. Their symbiotic relationship is not generally so clear.

[carastro]

Absolutely fabulous.  

[ollypenrice]

9 hours ago, Paul M said:

Thats's nice. But if I had to criticise, the top left blank box isn't square. The r/h edge isn't vertical.

Pretty much ruins it for me..

Oops, nearly forgot the 🤣🤣

On a serious note, I don't think I've ever seen that set of objects presented quite so spectacularly. Their symbiotic relationship is not generally so clear.

You touch on a serious point, though. There is dramatic field distortion in the top right of the image arising from the fact that I registered the top mosaic to the bottom one. This has concentrated the distortion in the top right.

I'm wondering about a solution. Maybe a very widefield, short FL lens, aimed at the image centre, could be upsampled and used as a template. Distortion is inevitable but coherent distortion would be nice. We have a year to cogitate over this because the missing southern parts are no longer available.

Olly

[Earl]

So much for empty space. its full of stuff

 

[Earl]

9 minutes ago, ollypenrice said:

You touch on a serious point, though. There is dramatic field distortion in the top right of the image arising from the fact that I registered the top mosaic to the bottom one. This has concentrated the distortion in the top right.

I'm wondering about a solution. Maybe a very widefield, short FL lens, aimed at the image centre, could be upsampled and used as a template. Distortion is inevitable but coherent distortion would be nice. We have a year to cogitate over this because the missing southern parts are no longer available.

Olly

Well

if it could be made into a moveable curved image which you could pan around....

 

[gorann]

3 hours ago, ollypenrice said:

You touch on a serious point, though. There is dramatic field distortion in the top right of the image arising from the fact that I registered the top mosaic to the bottom one. This has concentrated the distortion in the top right.

I'm wondering about a solution. Maybe a very widefield, short FL lens, aimed at the image centre, could be upsampled and used as a template. Distortion is inevitable but coherent distortion would be nice. We have a year to cogitate over this because the missing southern parts are no longer available.

Olly

Amazing project Olly! Very promising. If you need a widefield template maybe you could just use DSS2 in Aladin Sky Atlas:

Cheers, Göran

[ollypenrice]

13 minutes ago, gorann said:

Amazing project Olly! Very promising. If you need a widefield template maybe you could just use DSS2 in Aladin Sky Atlas:

Cheers, Göran

Good idea. Thanks, Goran, I'll try it.

[sharkmelley]

That's a stunning result that puts those popular Winter targets in their context.

[AstroMuni]

On 11/02/2024 at 18:44, ollypenrice said:

An interesting theory but what did Hillary say about Everest?

What shall I call this peak? 😉

[wimvb]

I see a staircase mosaic int the making. "Not because they are easy, ..."