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Old 28-05-2016, 05:58 PM
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Help me with wide field techniques...?

Keen to get a better shot of the galactic core over my back yard; just not sure as to the best way to go about it.

This is a combination of two angles; fairly easy to tell where one stops and the other starts. It's a mess, not a very accurate representation because it's been stretched and skewed so hard to make the two fit together (and they still kinda don't).

Both angles taken with Nikon full frame with an 18-35mm lens (not a great lens - has a LOT of distortion and vignette).

Sky was 40 x 90 second subs atop my NEQ6. For consistency I took 20 x 90 second subs of the back yard too. Stacked both sets in DSS, edited each in Lightroom, edited further & smashed together in Photoshop.

What process would be best? Would love to hear from those who do wide fields often.

(Apologies for quality of upload - I'm on my phone right now and it's just copied from Facebook)
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