While finally, I decided to bite the bullet and do a pano. It was a lot easier than I thought, but this still has some rough edges.
For those who don't know, a Mosaic is an astro way of saying Pano. This one is made up of 2 groups of images. I put the reducer in my scope which makes it 360mm, and then mentally split the Spaghetti Nebula in 2, leaving maybe 30% overlap. While that's normal for landscape images, it actually looks like for Astro images, only about 10% overlap is needed.
So, this is SH2-240, the Spaghetti Nebula. I need more time on it. I was at my sons house outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico the other night and it's very dark where he is. I decided I wanted to do the Mosaic on SH2-240, and decided I only needed 2 frames. So I roughly split the night in 2, and got 24 shots of the bottom of it with 10 minute exposures, and then moved the framing to the Top and was only able to get 16 shots at 10 minute exposures.
The temp had dropped down to 12 degrees F. I am not sure if that was the cause, but about 1am I went to check on the Astro rig to make sure the top was tracking fine. When I went out there the stars were streaking across the screen and the ZWO AM5 mount was flashing it's lights and making some weird noises. The battery was still at 100%, but after cycling the power I couldn't see what else might be causing the mount to glitch, so I switched batteries, and it started up fine, I relocated the framing, got the guiding going and it was off and running. But that is where I lost my time to get an equal amount on the top frame. But even at 24 frames, it's not enough. This guy is faint, and I really should have closer to 10 hours in each panel. So I am hoping I can get back out later this week and escape from my daughters house in Northern Colorado and get another 4 hours on each panel and then rework this one.
24 Lights @ 600 secs with Antlia ALP-T 5nm Filter - Panel 1
16 Lights @ 600 secs with Antlia ALP-T 5nm Filter - Panel 2
30 Flats
30 Dark Flats
30 Darks
ASI2600mc Pro - Astro Camera
Askar Fra500 - Scope
ZWO AM5 - Mount
ZWO EAF
ASIAir Plus - Astro Controller
Processed in Pixinsight
BlurXterminator
NoiseXterminator
StarXterminator
GradiationCorrection
Finished in Photoshop
All comments are welcome,
Jim
For those who don't know, a Mosaic is an astro way of saying Pano. This one is made up of 2 groups of images. I put the reducer in my scope which makes it 360mm, and then mentally split the Spaghetti Nebula in 2, leaving maybe 30% overlap. While that's normal for landscape images, it actually looks like for Astro images, only about 10% overlap is needed.
So, this is SH2-240, the Spaghetti Nebula. I need more time on it. I was at my sons house outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico the other night and it's very dark where he is. I decided I wanted to do the Mosaic on SH2-240, and decided I only needed 2 frames. So I roughly split the night in 2, and got 24 shots of the bottom of it with 10 minute exposures, and then moved the framing to the Top and was only able to get 16 shots at 10 minute exposures.
The temp had dropped down to 12 degrees F. I am not sure if that was the cause, but about 1am I went to check on the Astro rig to make sure the top was tracking fine. When I went out there the stars were streaking across the screen and the ZWO AM5 mount was flashing it's lights and making some weird noises. The battery was still at 100%, but after cycling the power I couldn't see what else might be causing the mount to glitch, so I switched batteries, and it started up fine, I relocated the framing, got the guiding going and it was off and running. But that is where I lost my time to get an equal amount on the top frame. But even at 24 frames, it's not enough. This guy is faint, and I really should have closer to 10 hours in each panel. So I am hoping I can get back out later this week and escape from my daughters house in Northern Colorado and get another 4 hours on each panel and then rework this one.
24 Lights @ 600 secs with Antlia ALP-T 5nm Filter - Panel 1
16 Lights @ 600 secs with Antlia ALP-T 5nm Filter - Panel 2
30 Flats
30 Dark Flats
30 Darks
ASI2600mc Pro - Astro Camera
Askar Fra500 - Scope
ZWO AM5 - Mount
ZWO EAF
ASIAir Plus - Astro Controller
Processed in Pixinsight
BlurXterminator
NoiseXterminator
StarXterminator
GradiationCorrection
Finished in Photoshop
All comments are welcome,
Jim
