After finishing the Cygnus H-Alpha Mosaic, I extracted & rotated the iconic objects present in the image, at various scale to best showcase them. The full scale mosaic can be downloaded from the link below, and it contains all the objects shown on this page. https://erellaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cygnus_final_Pixinsight-1.jpg
Daily Archives: May 2, 2020
Processing the Cygnus Mosaic
Processing the 30 tiles Cygnus mozaic was a bit of a challenge. First there is the logistic of handling about 2,000 frames and then the Borg 55 f3.6 astrograph exhibits strong field distortion making the merge of the images difficult, particularly where the corners overlap. For each of the 30 tiles I ran the PixInsightContinue reading “Processing the Cygnus Mosaic”
Acquiring the Cygnus mosaic
Most of the summer and fall of 2019 was spent imaging the Cygnus region in Hydrogen Alpha. I ended up doing a 30 tiles mosaic, with one hour of integration per tile. Each tile is made of 60 subs of 1 minute each, stacked together. The image covers a very wide field of 22×19 degrees,Continue reading “Acquiring the Cygnus mosaic”