Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  1 Mon  ·  10 pi.06 Ori  ·  11 Ori  ·  12.20  ·  12.69  ·  129 Antigone  ·  13 Ori  ·  13.93  ·  131 Tau  ·  133 Tau  ·  134 Tau  ·  135 Tau  ·  137 Tau  ·  14 i Ori  ·  14.47  ·  15 Ori  ·  16 h Ori  ·  17 rho Ori  ·  18 Ori  ·  19 bet Ori  ·  2 Mon  ·  20 tau Ori  ·  21 Ori  ·  22 o Ori  ·  23 m Ori  ·  24 gam Ori  ·  25 Ori  ·  27 p Ori  ·  28 eta Ori  ·  29 e Ori  ·  And 222 more.
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Orion Molecular Cloud Complex - 3x3 mosaic, Jeff Coldrey
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Orion Molecular Cloud Complex - 3x3 mosaic

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Orion Molecular Cloud Complex - 3x3 mosaic, Jeff Coldrey
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Orion Molecular Cloud Complex - 3x3 mosaic

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Learning how to build mosaics within PixInsight has been near the top of my "to do" list for several years. Now I have finally taken the plunge of attempting to learn the process.

This is a 9 panel mosaic built using 43GB of Nikon D810 DLSR data very generously shared by AstroBin member Wei-Hao Wang. It was captured using a Sigma 180mm f/2.8 APO lens over 7 imaging nights during 2016 and 2017.

A key lesson learned from this exercise is that trying to achieve seamless results with large mosaics involves considerable work! Two full weekends plus a couple of evenings later, I now have immense respect for the mosaic masters on AstroBin!

Thanks for looking, and CS to all!

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Orion Molecular Cloud Complex - 3x3 mosaic, Jeff Coldrey