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Originally Posted by Leonardo70

Very nice Marc ... giant area...

All the best,
Leo

Thanks Leo. You sould have crack a it where you are. You have the advantage of altitude and better seeing.

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

These large scale projects are eyeopeners showing events from the past long over with. Imagine the whole sky like this. Focusing must be a real challenge, do you take test exposures to fine tune focusing till satisfactory.

John.

Thanks John. There are a few whole sky maps in Ha and even more impressive in IR. What is cool is having foreground objects that give you a sense of scale besides whole known constellations. I have to focus by the numbers for this. I guide and loop the imaging camera on a star in 5s exposures in Nebulosity then try to get the best curve. With a bit of practice you get better at it. Focus doesn't shift much either. I find it holds for days.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Cool.

Thanks Paul.

Originally Posted by seeker372011

Looks good already the finished piece should be very nice

Thanks mate. Once I have it in 35mm I'll have a nice scaffold to stitch a lot more higher-res panels probably at 50mm or even 100mm. At the moment I'm still working out where the whole nebulosity is.

Originally Posted by leon

Great work in progress, Marc, I'm sure the end result will be well worth the effort, looking forward to the result.

Leon

Thanks Leon. That should keep me busy for a while. Anything to keep me away from M8