A four panel mosaic, The Large Molecular Cloud in Taurus

[petershah (Peter Shah)]

I love Dark Nebulae and The Large Molecular Cloud in Taurus has to be one of my favourites. This is a four panel mosaic featuring IC2087, IC2088 and NGC1539. Imaged remotely from Spain with the Epsilon 180ed and full format ZWO ASI2400MC Pro. Exposures were 45 x 300s for each panel. Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop, this was a real challenge for noise control but to be fair it is* dark stuff in a dark sky so I'll take it for what it is.
Thanks for looking
Peter Shah

https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/fLZL...0_b9muqi8S.jpg

[AstroViking (Steve)]

What a cool image, lots of dark stuff lit from behind. Very clever.

[petershah (Peter Shah)]

Originally Posted by AstroViking

What a cool image, lots of dark stuff lit from behind. Very clever.

Thank you....yes the hint of energetic stars sitting behind that dust....its a great part of the sky.

[Tinderboxsky (Steve)]

Very, very good Peter. Lots to explore and I like the composition.

[LKD (Luke)]

Absolutely amazing image, thumbnail looked good but when I checked out the astrobin link - WOW.

I cannot believe some of the images produced these days, modern astro cameras, good optics and long exposures, good processing, its amazing the detail we are picking up.

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Incredible image

[petershah (Peter Shah)]

Originally Posted by Tinderboxsky

Very, very good Peter. Lots to explore and I like the composition.

Its a huge area you could spend several seasons imaging it

Originally Posted by LKD

Absolutely amazing image, thumbnail looked good but when I checked out the astrobin link - WOW.

I cannot believe some of the images produced these days, modern astro cameras, good optics and long exposures, good processing, its amazing the detail we are picking up.

Thank you....The main issue with the process is controlling the noise....dark stuff on a dark sky doesnt help But the age of CMOS has upped that game once again....if you've been using CCD it takes some getting used to the short exposures on CMOS

Originally Posted by Nikolas

Incredible image

Thank you

[Dave882 (David)]

Wow that’s a fantastic image. Those dark nebulous regions look 3D and the whole image is really well framed. Great job!!

[OzEclipse (Joe Cali)]

Incredible image Peter. Thank you for sharing this.
Joe

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Hey that's a beauty Pete! Love images of faint dust, so ethereal. Some excellent imaging is being done from your remote Spanish Astronomy Villa resort! Awesome

Mike

[petershah (Peter Shah)]

Originally Posted by Dave882

Wow that’s a fantastic image. Those dark nebulous regions look 3D and the whole image is really well framed. Great job!!

thank you

Originally Posted by OzEclipse

Incredible image Peter. Thank you for sharing this.
Joe

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Hey that's a beauty Pete! Love images of faint dust, so ethereal. Some excellent imaging is being done from your remote Spanish Astronomy Villa resort! Awesome

Mike

Thanks Mike....I am very spoilt I'm going out there in a week doing some maintenance so looking forward to that.

[gregbradley]

Looks a bit like my skies at the moment!

You got the dust to stand out and that makes it interesting.

Mosaics can be challenging and take a lot of processing time.

Greg.

[Bassnut (Fred)]

That's very good!, clever processing.

[Tropo-Bob (Bob)]

That's different and really interesting. Great work!

[Addos (Adam)]

Great work! Great faint details and contrast!