Sunday, February 28, 2021
A new mosaic image from Taurus to Perseus 2009-2021
I have published several large mosaic images in past six months. This time my mosaic project took about 12 years to get finalized.
49 individual panels are covering 36 x 11 degrees of sky, total exposure time is around 250 hours. Native resolution for the mosaic is 31.000 x 8.800 pixels.
There are several rarely seen objects in my mosaic, they are very dim and majority of the 250 hours of exposures was used for them. There are three supernova remnants in the panorama, Simeis 147 at left, Sharpless 224 and Sharpless 221 are located at center of the image. They all are very dim but the Sharpless 221 is the most difficult one, it has an extremely low surface brightness and I think that my photo of Sh2-221 was the first three band color image out of it. Two large emission nebulae at right end of the mosaic must be the dimmest nebulae I have ever shot.
From Taurus to Perseus 2009-2021
Click for a large image, it's worth it!
Image in mapped colors from the light emitted by an ionized elements, hydrogen = green, sulfur = red and oxygen = blue. NOTE, the apparent size of the Moon in a lower left corner.
Frames used for the large mosaic
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Details and Orientation
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Links to some of the individual images used in large panorama
Simeis 147
Sh2-221 & 216
https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2020/04/two-ways-to-go-in-same-field-of-view.html
older version
https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2014/01/sh2-221-supernova-remnant-in-auriga.html
older version
https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2014/01/sh2-221-supernova-remnant-in-auriga.html
Sharpless 205, NGC 1491 and Lynds Bright Nebula 696
Jus H-alpha
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4 comments:
What an amazing piece of art! Thank you.
Where can I see the full 100,000 pixel image?
Great pics 👏 I like it
Hard work well worth it. This is outstanding and beautiful. I wish I could view this image in VR. Making this compatible with a VR headset would be absolutely amazing.
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