VSC Mosaic 3 Panes of 4 hours each

[Psychobilly]

A "little" project I planned last year but never got the weather to do anything with...

A Mosaic of the Virgo Super Cluster Region building around Markarians Chain.

Each Pane will be at least 4 hours deep in 300s subs @ ISO800 captured using my Baader BCF modified 1000D on the WO Megrez72 FFIII Combo...

So here's the result so far of the first 3 nights....

Or as a Half full scale (4255 x 3159) 8 bit Greysacle tiff from here 12.8MB Download

Peter...

[blinky]

Very nice Peter - thats going to be amazing once it's finished!

[Psychobilly]

Cheers Craig the only question is whats going to be finished first ... the mosaic or myself... works goingto be fun today.. ah well got to get the Flats, Dark Flats and Bias before I do anything else ....

Then theres going to be some Red Bull drunk...

Peter...

[blinky]

I really dont know how you do it Peter. I have never attempted anything like that as I just dont seem to get the time or the skies.

[jgs001]

It's gonna be a stunner Peter... it is already

[Psychobilly]

I have 4 more Panes with either a nice sized Messier or NGC to do and then its the fillers I am hoping to be able to do it all to 4 hours+ but i think the fillers might be cut short of even be Captired at say 2 hours at ISO1600...

Then I have to do calibrated stacks of all the frames making sure I use the right calibration frames, try and process them all to a similar level in CS3 before registering, calibrating and combining in Registar ... then back into CS3 for some global tweaks and tidying up..

Peter...

[Taff]

Nice work' lots' of galaxies there.Mark

[tooth_dr]

That is already something, will be amazing when it is completed.

[Psychobilly]

I have been looking where to stop it... I have gone vertically up from the top left to get inaother 2 Messiers but only got 1 hour on it last night befor ehte clouds run in...

If I want to turn it into a regular rectangular mosaic its going to be 12 panes altoug I an tempted to keep it Jaggy... see how the weather hold up...

Peter...

[RobH]

Keep at it Peter....no surrender!

It's already good, and will be not only a great image but a really useful resource when it's finished

Cheers

Rob

[Psychobilly]

Cheers rob... you'll be able to tick all those galaxies of one by one as you capture them with the new scope...

Last year I only got 2 frames of about 2 hours depth...

Peter...

[Dangerous-Dave]

Looks great, hope you keep adding to it.

[steppenwolf]

This is going to be a cracker judging by what you already have - keep on going!

[Beyond_Vision]

That is a real 'Spacewalk' really looking forward to the finished article let's hope the weather is kind to you Pete.

Regards

Kevin

[Psychobilly]

SO far I have had 2 weather aborted attempts at pane 4.

To keep things simple I need to get all the data for each pane in a single night. The Gradients even with flats make it interesting but any misalignment in the same pane makes it a nightmare...

The only good thing is theres no nebulosity around as this is proving to be a nightmare in the other mosaic I am trying to sort out at the moment (jelly to monkey)

Peter...

[MickyWay]

Fill in those spaces Peter, superb image. Don't stop now.

Regards,

[Tim]

Blimey, thats a cracker Peter, really looking forward to seeing this one 'done'.

[Psychobilly]

Been snookered by the weather

Always happens when I take on one of these now had 4 attempts at pane 4 maybe its jinxed and i should try another one and coem back to it