WORK IN PROGRESS: Milky Way Gigapixel Mosaic (Björn Hoffmann)

WORK IN PROGRESS: Milky Way Gigapixel Mosaic

After four nights of capturing more than 40 tiles of the milky way at 135mm focal length, all regions now connect!

However, this is an absolutely preliminary image! It will take me several weeks to finish it, but I wanted to let you know the progress of my project.

The original file has now 1,6 gigapixel and is super hard to postprocess. Therefore, I only saved a version with 20% of the original resolution and this here is a 50% version of that, making it only 10% in resolution of the upcoming original. Many tile borders need to be processed and I want to take the row from last night again, without foggy clouds. Also, I missed some times here and there, but where to stop? At some point I have to say, "that's it!" I cannot map the whole sky with 135mm.

I really hope you like this alsolutely preliminary result! I hope to find the time to process this beast in a way it deserves.

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	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

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	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

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	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

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