Contains:  Extremely wide field
Milky Way 50mm Mosaic (Okie-tex Star Party 2021), Brent Newton

Milky Way 50mm Mosaic (Okie-tex Star Party 2021)

Milky Way 50mm Mosaic (Okie-tex Star Party 2021), Brent Newton

Milky Way 50mm Mosaic (Okie-tex Star Party 2021)

Equipment

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Acquisition details

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Description

Capture Details:
 - 29-panel mosaic using 8x60" each, 14 on the first night and 15 on the second

Pre-Processing:
 - Darks calibration, Cosmetic Correction, Debayer
 - Star Alignment, Image Integration
 - Slight Crop
 - ImageSolver  + SPCC
 - BlurX (Correct Only)
 - Mosaic Alignment, GradientMergeMosaic using Overlay mode to reduce foreground

Post processing:
 - Additional SPCC and BlurX (Correct Only)
 - StarX
 - Rista method TGVD, MMT for noise reduction
 - GHS stretch (Stars given ArcSinH, SCNR, additional Curves adjustments)
 - HDRMT to bring brighter star clouds
 - Color and contrast tweaks using Curves
 - Star Screen via PixelMath, Bill's Star Reduction

Photoshop:
 - Cropped to 9x16
 - Applied Foreground (taken separately)
 - Color Range Selection used as mask for increasing contrast to and providing color balance tweaks to background sky vs dust on either side of the galactic band
- Signature added

Comments

Revisions

  • Milky Way 50mm Mosaic (Okie-tex Star Party 2021), Brent Newton
    Original
  • Milky Way 50mm Mosaic (Okie-tex Star Party 2021), Brent Newton
    B
  • Milky Way 50mm Mosaic (Okie-tex Star Party 2021), Brent Newton
    C
  • Final
    Milky Way 50mm Mosaic (Okie-tex Star Party 2021), Brent Newton
    E

B

Description: Manually labeled

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C

Description: Addition of meteors found while Blinking subexposures

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E

Description: 2024 Re Edit with better color calibration and isolation of interstellar dust outside the main galactic band

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Histogram

Milky Way 50mm Mosaic (Okie-tex Star Party 2021), Brent Newton