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The Heart Nebula and Westerhout 5 SHO Mosaic, Tom Peter AKA Astrovetteman
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The Heart Nebula and Westerhout 5 SHO Mosaic

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
The Heart Nebula and Westerhout 5 SHO Mosaic, Tom Peter AKA Astrovetteman
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The Heart Nebula and Westerhout 5 SHO Mosaic

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Here's a mosaic, I created, using data of the Heart Nebula from Telescope Live's SPA-3 scope (Takahshi-FSQ106ED/FLI PL 16803) and Westerhout 5 from the SPA-1 scope (Takahashi FSQ-106EDX4/FLI PL 16803).  I used Photometric Mosaic in Pixinsight to create the mosaic....it was quite tedious to get the panels to match since they were taken with 2 different scopes and the fields were rotated, a bit, with respect to each other, so there was some distortion to correct. It's also dithered which really added to the computer time it took to process. As close as I could figure, there's over 30 hours of total exposure time.
Anyway, hope ya like my Heart & Soul!
Tom

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The Heart Nebula and Westerhout 5 SHO Mosaic, Tom Peter AKA Astrovetteman