Veil Nebula Mosaic

[Mac]

Merging the pieces that I've taken over the last month

[Juno16]

Beautiful piece of fine artwork Steve.

Definitely a wall hanger!

I’m still trying to image any part of this. Haven’t had a chance to fire a shot.

Very nice and thanks!

[Mac]

Beautiful piece of fine artwork Steve.

Definitely a wall hanger!

I’m still trying to image any part of this. Haven’t had a chance to fire a shot.

Very nice and thanks!

Thanks Jim... sorry to hear your plight of no imaging. We are having a string of clear night, and more going into next week.

[Hankmeister3]

Wow! Awesome, Mac. Not trying to be out-of-line here but I see a potential APOD here. This is marvelous in technique and in beauty! How many mb of data do you have tied up in this image so far?

[Mac]

Wow! Awesome, Mac. Not trying to be out-of-line here but I see a potential APOD here. This is marvelous in technique and in beauty! How many mb of data do you have tied up in this image so far?

Thanks Henry... well in terms of RAW data, I am missing the original FITS files for a few of them, so I combined the TIFFs outputted from PixInsight and created the Pano in LightRoom.

The registered FITS files from what I do have are ~ 12GB.

[Hankmeister3]

12 GB!? Buwahahaha! That's huuuuuuuge! Now that's a lot of data. Whew! Keep up the excellent work, it's a joy to see what you'll post next. Man, Steve, if you finish this mosaic I'd love to buy a poster of the final image from you.

[Mac]

12 GB!? Buwahahaha! That's huuuuuuuge! Now that's a lot of data. Whew! Keep up the excellent work, it's a joy to see what you'll post next. Man, Steve, if you finish this mosaic I'd love to buy a poster of the final image from you.

Thanks Henry, I will give you the image free of charge.

Each sub is ~110MB, averaging 40 subs per session, but I just realized that includes the debayered images too, so not quite that large I guess.

I will miss a week of mostly clear skies, as we are going on vacation.

[STEVE333]

Beautiful work Steve. You really have your gear "dialed in". Keep em comin'.

Steve

[Mac]

Beautiful work Steve. You really have your gear "dialed in". Keep em comin'.

Steve

Thanks Steve... I am going to have to dial in the 1600MM next and take my processing to the next level and do the, you know, the thing!

Still trying to decide on the filters to purchase and I have been unable to get the 11mm extension off the front of the 1600 to attach the EFW correctly.

Right now I have camera > 11mm nose piece > EFW > 16.5 mm > reducer with a 1mm male/male adapter in there to get 55mm back focus.

[yobbo89]

that is an an awsome image and such a large target!, only like 50 more panels to get the whole object in frame ?

[starfield]

Wow. What's your process for stitching these together? Do you do that in PI? Or is it something that you handle in Photoshop? Thanks.

[Mac]

Wow. What's your process for stitching these together? Do you do that in PI? Or is it something that you handle in Photoshop? Thanks.

Lightroom stitched them together very easily. I was surprised how well it came out.