Thursday, January 21, 2021
Mosaic image gets large, 400 hours and 41 panels
Nine years and over 350 hours of exposures, 41 panels and 31 high resolution sub-panels stitched together seamlessly. This mosaic image spans about 45 x 18 degrees of sky, the original resolution is 14.000 x 41.000 pixels.
Previous version of this mosaic image can be seen here, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2020/12/from-cassiopeia-to-cepheus-eight-years.html
From cassiopeia to Cepheus
Click for a full size image, it's really worth it! (3700 x 1400 pixels)
Image is in mapped colors from a light from the ionized elements, hydrogen = green, sulfur = red and oxygen = blue. NOTE, there is an image of the Moon at the same scale in lower left corner.
The heart and Soul nebulae are at upper left corner and the IC 1396 with the Elephant's Trunk Nebula at center right. There are many well known objects in this massive mosaic image including the Bubble and Cave Nebulae at just a little right from the center. There are about six million stars in this composition.
Orientation
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Evolution of the mosaic image shot between 2012 - 2021
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Equipments
Some reduced size details from the full size mosaic image
Sharpless 132
IC 1396
Supernova remnant CTB1
Sharpless 124
From Bubble to Cave Nebula
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2 comments:
Fabulous.
You are a God.
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