Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi TOA-150
Imaging cameras: FLI ML16200
Mounts: Astro-Physics 1600GTO AE
Software: Pleaides Astrophoto Pixinsight 1.8.6 Ripley
Filters: O · H · R · B · G
Astrometry.net job: 4160653
RA center: 8h 31' 14"
DEC center: -44° 56' 34"
Pixel scale: 1.129 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 84.305 degrees
Field radius: 1.225 degrees
Resolution: 6619x4150
Locations: DSW Chile, El Sauce, Chile
Data source: Amateur hosting facility
Remote source: DeepSkyWest
This section of the Vela Supernova Remnant is made up of 2 panes shot using the TOA-150 refractor and FLI ML16200 camera located in El Sauce Chile. This target was a very difficult one to process. I must have thrown everything away and restarted 5 times. The detail is more faint than you would think making it very difficult to bring out the color and detail that I imaged before I started.
Hats off to the PixInsight team for the development of the MosaicByCoordinates script. In my previous mosaics I used the StarAlignment tool to attempt to put the individual frames together. This always seemed like a kludge and I typically struggled with images that were 1 pixel too wide or too long that would refuse to combine. The MosaicByCoordinates script is AWESOME!!! It took a bit longer to run, but it was perfect. I can't believe that I didn't know this thing was there (I'm sure it has been for a while, I just didn't know it). The reason that I mention it here is in case there are others out there that are also unaware of its existence. The documentation for it was great and I had no problems using it. My individual channel mosaics were done with a few ticks of the clock and zero frustration.
C and C always welcome!
Tim.
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