Hi,
Finally some clear weather to add some more panels to this monster image of the SMC.
It's ceratinly turning out to be a challenge, getting overlaps on the image has not been an easy task. I have my pointing accuracy reasonable but it still takes up to 30 minutes to get each panel overlapping.
There's no easy way to do it, there's nothing bright enough in the canon 1100D live view to do quck centering. So each time I take a 30 sec exposure, check it and move the scope.
As you can see I stuffed up with an overlap trying to cut it too fine. I'll need to do another hours worth to make up for this strip.
At this stage it looks like I should do it with 20 panels.
Each panel being composed of 5 minute ISO 1600 subs, one hour total.
Cheers,
Justin.
That looks great Justin. There seems to be some interesting Ha regions coming up on the bottom right too. I know how you feel about the small missing bit in between two panels. Had that happen myself. Just stick a boxed title over it, beats reshooting a whole panel for a couple of stars.
That looks great Justin. There seems to be some interesting Ha regions coming up on the bottom right too. I know how you feel about the small missing bit in between two panels. Had that happen myself. Just stick a boxed title over it, beats reshooting a whole panel for a couple of stars.
Thanks Marc!
Hmmm, tempting on the box title.
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Originally Posted by Larryp
Looks excellent, Justin
Thanks Laurie!
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Originally Posted by RickS
Nice work, Justin! Have you considered plate solving to help with positioning the panels?
Thanks Rick!
Don't know anything about plate solving, I'll have to investigate.
Thanks for the tip.
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Originally Posted by LewisM
Now that's something special Justin!
Again proves that a DSLR in the right hands is a more than capable astroimaging tool.
Thanks Lewis!
Yep, still enjoying the DSLR.
They certainly can produce some good images.
Looks great....
Take a look at Sequence Generator Pro - they use plate solving for target acquisition, and have a mosaic wizard for doing the sort of thing you are doing.... might make things too easy even??
Basically drag a box around what you want, set the angle, set the overlap amount and it does all the work....
What an awesome composite! What equipment are you imaging with/at?
Thanks Cameron!
I'm using an unmodded canon 1100D, 8" Newt astrograph, HEQpro5 mount, Orion mini guider and type3 Badder coma corrector.
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Originally Posted by Lee
Looks great....
Take a look at Sequence Generator Pro - they use plate solving for target acquisition, and have a mosaic wizard for doing the sort of thing you are doing.... might make things too easy even??
Basically drag a box around what you want, set the angle, set the overlap amount and it does all the work....
