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Old 22-09-2012, 09:07 PM
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LMC mosaic attempt

I thought I'd try sticking a couple of frames of the LMC together using pixinsight. The CLS filter must be at a slight angle in the Tak's T-adapter as there are some very strange colour gradients in all the images I got with this in place, but the pixinsight DBE tool does seem to do a good job of removing them.
I need to go out and get some more data and construct a more carefully planned mosaic, but I think this might work out for my eventual plan of a wall-sized print of the LMC.
Each panel is only half an hour's worth 3 x 10 mins @ iso2000. I had to resize this image by 50% to get it onto astrobin again, there's a limit to how many pixels they can manage.
hardware = D800 + Tak FSQ106 + G11.
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Old 22-09-2012, 10:02 PM
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whoah that looks astounding!.......... dont know much about that sort of stuff but omg to my eyes well.... amazing!
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Old 22-09-2012, 10:09 PM
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Thanks Pat - I like the thing that looks like a supernova remnant in the lower left corner - it's not 1987a, as that's over on the other side of the taranatula.
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Old 22-09-2012, 10:13 PM
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Andrew,
That is an amazing beautiful image !! Very good capture and processing. The region of the Tarantula Nebula is just owesome.

Congrats on the result.

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Old 23-09-2012, 09:45 AM
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Superb shot! Gotta love that scope.
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Old 23-09-2012, 10:04 AM
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Great mosaic Andrew!

Sure some detail in there.

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Old 23-09-2012, 11:26 PM
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Thanks for the feedback, nice to hear others appreciate it.The Tak's remarkably flat field makes the mosaics relatively easy. Having a bit of a fiddle around it looks like I'll need 8 frames for the LMC.
Going to be a lot of work!
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Old 24-09-2012, 08:49 AM
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Great work, Andrew. I look forward to the completed mosaic!
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Old 24-09-2012, 09:22 AM
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That is a fantastic mosaic.
Great job.
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Great view. I would love to attempt something like this one day
Looks awesome.
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Old 27-09-2012, 03:29 PM
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Andrew,
The supernova looking thing on the keft hand side of the Tarantula is the N70 super-bubble complex. Steve Crouch has a good image of it on his website or most likely on here.

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Great photo Andrew.

Superb colour and detail...so sharp.

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Hello Andrew,

Just for my curiosity, do you have your D800 low-pass filter modified or sort ?

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Wow! That's stunning. I've always sort of discounted the Magellanic clouds as a curiosity but low on my list to image. They just moved right to the top
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Superb, Andrew!
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Beautiful image, thanks for sharing
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Go the D800!

36.3 megapixels of amazingness!

Lovely fine resolution, really shows off the fabulous D800.

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Amazing shot
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Old 25-11-2012, 09:14 PM
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Thanks all, bit surprised to see this thread resurrected! - I'm now 4 frames into a 6 frame mosaic of the whole thing and next new moon should see it finished. The mosaic image at full resolution is 4Gb, and so far looks a lot better than my first effort. I promise I'll put it up when done.
I'm so taken with this camera I think I'll buy a modified D800E instead of going to a 16803 chipped CCD. The camera I'm using now is an unmodified D800- here's my astrobin page for some examples of what it can do (except the solar system pics, obviously). I thinks the FSQ106 is a pretty big part of the equation too.
http://www.astrobin.com/users/alocky/
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