Pipe Nebula Update

[dvj (John)]

Hello folks,

Here's the update to my Pipe Nebula image post. What started out as a single shot for fun remote observing, turned into a 9 segment mosaic project spanning quite a few nights while I worked on other Ha projects.

1 hour L channel each segment. 300s x 12

FSQ
Proline 16803
From Coonabarabran

The full res, 16 bit image is amazing. This reduction hints at the fine detail contained in the original. I'm still working through different types of photo merge processes to produce the best combine.

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/8774/98749879.jpg

[atalas]

Awesome JG!

[RickS (Rick)]

Very nice! You only need a few more segments and you've got the whole Dark Horse.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Great res. It'll be epic with some colour.

[gregbradley]

Very very impressive. The mosaic is seamless.

Greg.

[astroboy]

Fantastic image John , does the area justice.

Zane

[astronobob (Bob)]

Unreal, I cant get over how pin point the billions of stars are in the Hi Res, just fantastic John

[RobF (Rob)]

Oh my goodness - the full image is sublime.
Is that all shot at F5?

[dvj (John)]

Originally Posted by RobF

Oh my goodness - the full image is sublime.
Is that all shot at F5?

Thank you and yes it is. 5 minute subs, 1 hour total each segment.

Originally Posted by astronobob

Unreal, I cant get over how pin point the billions of stars are in the Hi Res, just fantastic John

Thank you! The FSQ - N model does a great job. The full res images are amazing. I must to post a few segments.

Originally Posted by astroboy

Fantastic image John , does the area justice.

Thank you! I'm a big fan of grayscale

Zane

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Very very impressive. The mosaic is seamless.

Hi Greg, I used Photomerge in CS4 with a few minor adjustments to the seams. Best to orient and level balance each segment equally before the merge. It does a very nice job and with my Core i7 extreme system, it only takes a minute to assemble a dozen 16 bit images.

Greg.

Originally Posted by multiweb

Great res. It'll be epic with some colour.

Well yes, I suppose it would be. Grayscale takes me back to my early days of imaging with 103ae film. I've seen some amazing color mosaics of this region. It would be an epic effort to pull it all together and I'm working on a huge Ha project right now and don't have the time. This was supposed to be a fun digital observing time in the late morning hours, but turned into a project of sorts. More to come.

Originally Posted by RickS

Very nice! You only need a few more segments and you've got the whole Dark Horse.

Yes, indeed Rick. I'm adding 40 more segments to cover a larger area assuming I get some extra time. ;-)

Originally Posted by atalas

Awesome JG!

Thank you very much!

[E_ri_k (Erik)]

The full size image is AMAZING! How many stars do you recon are in that frame ! Mind blowing, thank's for sharing!
Erik