My first Mosaic effort - Horsehead and Flame

[Spookyer (Brett)]

Hi all, I started collecting data on this in November 2016 and finished about the 9th of April. That just shows you how much cloudy weather Brisbane has had lately. Anyway I probably got about 20hrs of data for each panel and used about 14hrs of the best stuff. The seeing some nights was not too flash.

It took me sometime to process this in Pixinsight (with some finishing work in Photoshop) I had my usual share of frustrations and I am sure there are problems I didn't solve or notice. Thanks to RickS for his tips and encouragement on my PI journey. I should also mention the Light Vortex astronomy website as my main online PI resource. Excellent tutorials.

Constructive comments welcome. The flickr link is a better version to look at than the one loaded on IIS.

https://www.flickr.com/gp/148252782@N06/Gx2n9m

Happy Easter to all.
Brett

[Atmos (Colin)]

Looks fantastic Brett, cannot see any stitch lines which is a big for a mosaic
Mosaics are a lot of fun I have to say.

[Anth10 (Anthony M)]

A marathon effort deserves applause and this image is A1 and shows the time and energy spent. Well done on a beautiful image of a most famous nebula.

[gregbradley]

A superb Horsehead widefield. Love the colour you got on the Flame Nebula.

Greg,

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

That's a beauty Brett, well done

[JA]

Lovely Image Brett - Congratulations

Best
JA

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

That joined seamlessly.

Very nice colour and detail in the Flame nebula.

[RickS (Rick)]

A cracking image, Brett. Worth all the effort

[ozstronomer (Geoff)]

Beautiful image Brett, the processing looks spot on

Well done

Geoff

[Spookyer (Brett)]

Thanks to all for kind comments. It is satisfying to get a decent image out given the scarcity of clear weather. I drizzled this image as well, while it seems to give good results the bigger file size does slow the processing down a bit. If you wanted to do a print or something though it is worth it. I am working on my second mosaic now. Look out for it in 6 months!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeah, a great shot Brett, nice contrasty colour and I like it when this area is framed with the Ha ridge at a steeper angle. Good return on a sizable investment

Mike

[Spookyer (Brett)]

Yes agree about the angle, the diagonal adds a dynamic element and the horsehead also looks better leaned back like that I reckon.