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Old 19-03-2017, 09:31 AM
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Four-panel mosaic of the Lagoon Nebula region

This is a four-panel mosaic of the Lagoon Nebula region imaged using 12-nm filters centered on the spectral lines of Hydrogen alpha, Sulfur II and Oxygen III. All the data were recorded in the outer suburbs of Sydney, Australia. It took me 1 million years to merge all of the panels because of light pollution gradients.

https://flic.kr/p/SR6n4a

https://flic.kr/p/RKTRv5

https://flic.kr/p/Ssynqf

Technical details:

Televue Nagler Petzval 127is at f/4.2, Astronomik 12-nm SII, Ha and OIII filters, QSI683wsg camera cooled to -20 Celsius. All sub-frames at 2x2 binning.

I would recommend using 1x1 binning whenever possible. However, I used 2x2 binning to record about 350 sub-frames at 10 minutes each to create a four-panel mosaic. 2x2 binning helped to reduce the total integration time.
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