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Peter,
Firstly, well done on such an ambitious project.
Its funny as only recently I was just discussing with a felow astrophotographer how the number of people using FSQ's and large format cameras has increased in the last few years. There is certainly no shortage of them, thats for sure.
I guess one way to speed this project up is to invite fellow astrophotographers to submit their widefields images in Ha to a single website. Esentially speeding up the process of collecting enough data to be able to disaply the entire Milky Way.
People would simply pick a Mosaic Frame (To reduce duplication) and submitt.
Then this not only becaomes a SH project but also a Northern Hemisphere possibly.
In no time it would be possible to display the largest photographic record of our night skies.
Eventually LRGB data could also be added.
I have always found astronomy books disjointed, just giving you single images of parts of the sky but not really giving the reader any idea what the object is in relation to in the sky.
This could potentially be used as a very usefull educational tool.
Let me know if you would like to discuss this further as I would be very interested in participating in something like this.
Cheers
Mark
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