mosaic M42 and Horsehead

[Les Tilly]

This is my first try at a mosaic its a total of 4 images 3 images are 1 hour each at 15 min exposures iso 800 and the horsehead was from a earlier sesion of 3 hours iso 800 15 min exposures
taken with the SV70ED and Canon 40D Modified

Thanks Les

[bmitchell82 (Brendan)]

Very nice image, though i would have thought you would have let the colour come though?

[iceman (Mike)]

Stunning widefield mosaic! Very nice work, Les. thanks for posting and welcome to IIS.

[Les Tilly]

Originally Posted by bmitchell82

Very nice image, though i would have thought you would have let the colour come though?

This is only HA image as the Moon is too bright for RGB at the moment

Thanks Les

[renormalised (Carl)]

Great shot there, Les. One thing I like about B&W pics....they tend to show more detail in the piccies than most colour pics. You can see more of the finer detail, especially in pics like this. Well done

[renormalised (Carl)]

Actually, just having a look at the piccie, it reminds me of the old Palomar Sky Survey or UK Schmidt B&W plates....especially in the clarity of the detail and the star images.

[gregbradley]

That's a great image. Well done.

Greg.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Lovely image there Les,

So delicate, so much detail and structure.
Welcome to IIS and looking forward to seeing more of your work.

Regards
Trevor

[Les Tilly]

Thanks Guys it worked out quite well does anyone know how to reduce the Halo on the large stars

Les

[Hagar (Doug)]

This is really a stunning image with so much detail. It makes others pale into insignificance. It shows so much of the fine detail surrounding this area.
I love it. Keep them coming.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yes there are images of this field much deeper than this but this level of depth and naturalness (is that a word?) and your composition has a certain classy quality to it. Your mozaicing looks good too, nice job Les.

Mike

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Beautifully done Les. Top notch. Great detail and I'm starting to really like monochrome again based on efforts like this one. Ha narrowband certainly has its place

Can you do us a favour and stick another one up with lines representing the image tiles? I'd like to do something like this with my FS60-C.

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

Great pic! It is not easy to do this.

cheers werner

[Les Tilly]

Thanks Guys

And here is the uncut version I stretched it so you can see the lines better

Les

[Alchemy (Clive)]

certainly a lovely bit of sky , and quite a field of view all stitched up.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Actually Les, if you can work on it bit more in the stretched version and hide those joins a bit better it looks really good as an obvious mozaic and would look great mounted as such IMO.

Mike

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Great pic that raises the bar for the rest of us and gives us something to aim for. What software did you use for the stitching?

[Les Tilly]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Actually Les, if you can work on it bit more in the stretched version and hide those joins a bit better it looks really good as an obvious mozaic and would look great mounted as such IMO.

Mike

Thanks Mike I was wondering how to bring out the nebula more and I think you put me on the right idea

Les

[Les Tilly]

Originally Posted by ghsmith45

Great pic that raises the bar for the rest of us and gives us something to aim for. What software did you use for the stitching?

I stacked and calibrated the images in Deepsky stacker I then moved them into Photoshop cs2 once I balanced the background, I moved the tiles into Registar and did a register, calibrate, and combine, registar does the stiching then back into CS2 for tweaking and trimmimg

Les

[AlexN]

Awesome.. Looking forward to more...

As Mike said, the more stretched version with the obvious mosaic look about it is actually very pleasing.. Just get those join lines to blend in as nicely as they do in the original, and you'll be on a winner...