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Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: Roberto on Sep 20, 2021, 11:36:14

Title: North America and Pelican mosaic from Petts Wood
Post by: Roberto on Sep 20, 2021, 11:36:14
Hello All

My project for late summer this year, a 2x2 mosaic using Voyager Array of NGC7000 and IC5070 among others.

See link for details of equipment and exposure times:  https://www.astrobin.com/2003cx/I/ (https://www.astrobin.com/2003cx/I/)  The full size versions are pretty large (>7k square) - hopefully they display well here.

A few versions at the link above including narrowband and OSC only. Taken over the back end of August and first half of September as weather allowed.

Roberto

RGB with narrowband mixed in
(https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/qy2SJkdIkd5s_16536x0_85166Htd.jpg)

Annotated
(https://cdn.astrobin.com/solutions/images/5378/2021/c26ed81e-ca1b-4f9d-bbf5-bbe1c36e016d-1632091214.jpg)

(https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/jyYTkZFv0sTH_1824x0_0nse9Boz.jpg)

Bicolour narrowband - HaOIII - and starless
(https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/EuqUSXZnPufR_1824x0_0nse9Boz.jpg)
Title: Re: North America and Pelican mosaic from Petts Wood
Post by: garrick on Sep 20, 2021, 19:53:43
Really spectacular image Roberto. Details are crisp and the stars superb. I really like the colour palette.

Clear Skies

G
Title: Re: North America and Pelican mosaic from Petts Wood
Post by: RobertM on Sep 20, 2021, 20:14:47
That's really lovely Roberto, an excellent mix of NB and colour data.

Robert
Title: Re: North America and Pelican mosaic from Petts Wood
Post by: Roberto on Sep 20, 2021, 20:33:49
Thank you both.  Glad you liked it.  I may work a bit on increasing the brightness for both nebula and stars.  It looks fine in my home monitor but it didn't in my work one.

Roberto
Title: Re: North America and Pelican mosaic from Petts Wood
Post by: Carole on Sep 23, 2021, 12:34:36
How did I miss this.  Not only an really great image with an interesting composition but I like the way you have split up the different components by way of explanation and your stars are always so beautiful.

Carole
Title: Re: North America and Pelican mosaic from Petts Wood
Post by: Roberto on Sep 23, 2021, 13:04:53
Thank you Carole!  You are too kind! 😊  It was a struggle to mix the narrowband with the colour.  Keeping the stars from RGB was one of the aims but I also wanted to keep the dust which doesn't show in NB but it's present in the RGB.  I used a technique similar to Screen layer mixing from Photoshop but in PixInsight.

Roberto
Title: Re: North America and Pelican mosaic from Petts Wood
Post by: MarkS on Sep 28, 2021, 23:06:37
Very nicely done!  Processing is top notch and you have some great detail in there.

Mark
Title: Re: North America and Pelican mosaic from Petts Wood
Post by: ApophisAstros on Oct 01, 2021, 18:41:40
Agree with all posted comments , wonderful imaging and processing. truly spectacular.
Rog..
Title: Re: North America and Pelican mosaic from Petts Wood
Post by: Roberto on Oct 04, 2021, 10:37:04
Thank you Roger and Mark!