Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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In love with the core, Lights and Darks Photography (Thomas Schifer)

In love with the core

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)
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In love with the core, Lights and Darks Photography (Thomas Schifer)

In love with the core

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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Another rework with lots of additional data and hopefully better quality.
You can find the full Version here:
https://pano.lights-and-darks.com/
After doing my gigapixel mosaic in autoum with my Namibiadata I realized 2 things.
1) at lot's of panels I was lacking good data. Exposure time wise and often the panels where shot in less than ideal conditions.
2) I was a little too motivated concerning the integration of Ha and the edit in general. Blowing up not the best data leads to strange results.
So i took all my LRGB data I took in La Palma in spring and just filled the missing parts with data from Namibia to get a much smaller area, but with much better data and I tried to edit it in a much more subtle way.
I love to watch it in full resolution and I also love the annotated version.
This is 50% of the original resolution here, but here are some crops in full resolution.
Also the above mentioned link leads you to the full version with a deep zoom viewer.

Sagittarius Triplet Full resolution without annotation:
MW_Mosaic_Mercator_PS Kopie_nichtAnnotiert_1_20240309.jpg

Bluehorsehead in the same way:
MW_Mosaic_Mercator_PS Kopie_nichtAnnotiert_1_20240309-2.jpg

M22:
MW_Mosaic_Mercator_PS Kopie_nichtAnnotiert_1_20240309-5.jpg

Antares region:
MW_Mosaic_Mercator_PS Kopie_nichtAnnotiert_1_20240309-3.jpg

The plan is to do the entire 4 gigapixels in better quality. I am back in Namibia in June and July.
Hope you enjoy it! would also love to get some feedback. I am not the guy with the best communication skills. But often I fell like a lonsome fighter out there. Though most of the time I enjoy beeing out alone in the dark under the stars!

In total I took about 120 panels but here are 30 panels mostly done with the ZWO ASI 6200MM Pro and around 30-45minutes of exposure per panel
The missing parts were filled by rgb data from my modified Canon RP. The exposure time here was less mainly around 12-15 minutes.

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