Rho Oph Nebula Complex

[Atmos (Colin)]

I'm slowly making my way through some data from last year and I thought I'd share a 15 panel mosaic of Rho!
Taken me a couple of days to make my way through the 15 panels to get myself a nice 1.4 gigapixel image but for your viewing pleasure I've dropped it down to a cool 16.5 megapixels.

High Resolution on Astrobin

[spiezzy]

OMG that is awesome Colin unbelievable Wow i am speechless got to have another look
cheers Pete

[gregbradley]

Stunning Colin, really well done.

Greg.

[Stonius (Markus)]

Wow! Love it!

[Peter Ward]

One of the sky's most stunning vistas....and superbly rendered here.

Nice

[RobF (Rob)]

Very very nicely done Colin!

[JA]

Well done Colin. Excellent Image

Best
JA

[Atmos (Colin)]

Originally Posted by spiezzy

OMG that is awesome Colin unbelievable Wow i am speechless got to have another look
cheers Pete

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Stunning Colin, really well done.

Greg.

Originally Posted by Stonius

Wow! Love it!

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

One of the sky's most stunning vistas....and superbly rendered here.

Nice

Originally Posted by RobF

Very very nicely done Colin!

Originally Posted by JA

Well done Colin. Excellent Image

Best
JA

Thanks ya’ll. This is one of my favourite looking areas of the Milky Way and one that I’ve tried imaging with a Sigma Art 85 two years ago but was never entirely happy with the contrast. There is something in large mosaics that wide fields just cannot compete with

[Paul Haese]

Nice work Colin. The colour of this region is unmatched. Your rendering is very nice. Well done.

[kosborn (Kevin)]

Amazing image. That's a great part of the sky! What was the exposure/subs for each panel?

[topheart]

Hi Colin,
Congratulations on a superb rendition!
Cheers,
Tim

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Putting the tendency for this area to show subtle sky gradients and not knowing where these actually end and nebulosity starts, aside... .....this is a fantastic image Col with beautiful rich colour and has a rather mesmerising feel to it while surfing around.

A most enjoyable view squire, very nicely done

Mike

[multiweb (Marc)]

Great colors Colin. Nice resolution too.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Exquisite beauty and a technical tour-de-force.

One to blow up to six feet on a side and print on aluminium.

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

Sheesh! Stunning work.

[DJT (David)]

Good Grief, that's stunning
Colours handled beautifully. So much going on.

[billdan (Bill)]

Excellent work Colin, you must have a lot of patience stitching 15 panels together. Whoever says DSLR's are redundant should have a look at this.

Cheers
Bill

[markas (Mark)]

Great image of one of the best bits of the sky. You've caught this beautifully


Mark

[Atmos (Colin)]

I've gone and started from scratch again and I'm happier with where it is now. There was a blue gradient that was swamping the top of the frame and that has been removed to now show all of the fine dust... There is almost no part of the frame that doesn't contain some amount of dust! Feel like getting at it with a vacuum

Revised Version

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Nice work Colin. The colour of this region is unmatched. Your rendering is very nice. Well done.

I was both happy and not quite so happy with the colour but I am much happier with the new version

Originally Posted by kosborn

Amazing image. That's a great part of the sky! What was the exposure/subs for each panel?

Every panel is 5x300s at ISO400 so 75 subs in total or 6.25 hours of exposure.

Originally Posted by topheart

Hi Colin,
Congratulations on a superb rendition!
Cheers,
Tim

Thanks Tim

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Putting the tendency for this area to show subtle sky gradients and not knowing where these actually end and nebulosity starts, aside... .....this is a fantastic image Col with beautiful rich colour and has a rather mesmerising feel to it while surfing around.

A most enjoyable view squire, very nicely done

Mike

I knew there was some gradients that I wasn't overly happy with but I think in the new version those gradients have been eliminated and now we're left with just how dusty this regions really is!

Originally Posted by multiweb

Great colors Colin. Nice resolution too.

Thanks Mark

Originally Posted by Placidus

Exquisite beauty and a technical tour-de-force.

One to blow up to six feet on a side and print on aluminium.

At full resolution it should be printable at 3x3m at 300 DPI

Originally Posted by Ryderscope

Sheesh! Stunning work.

Originally Posted by DJT

Good Grief, that's stunning
Colours handled beautifully. So much going on.

Thanks David & Rodney

Originally Posted by billdan

Excellent work Colin, you must have a lot of patience stitching 15 panels together. Whoever says DSLR's are redundant should have a look at this.

Cheers
Bill

I'm still trying to figure out the best way of forming a mosaic but I feel like I'm slowly getting there

Originally Posted by markas

Great image of one of the best bits of the sky. You've caught this beautifully


Mark

It is a great patch of sky with numerous bits that can be imaged all on their own.

[Retrograde (Pete)]

Absolutely exquisite Colin!