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Winter is Coming - The Hunter, Chris Beere

Winter is Coming - The Hunter

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Winter is Coming - The Hunter, Chris Beere

Winter is Coming - The Hunter

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The last dataset from my Elafonisi testing run. A 2 x 1 mosaic of one of the most iconic regions of the sky.

Orion rose above the 25 degree no shoot zone at about 03:00 and hit the meridian at 06:00 shortly before sunrise so i was able to grab a fair bit of data.

I love the galactic plane looking outwards to the Orion spur, so many bright stars and congruent constellations. Under a proper dark sky it looks awesome. 

This one turned out pretty good considering its only 3 hours per panel - i had to lean on NoiseX a bit because ive pushed it hard and 3 hours really isnt enough to go at it big guns. Comparing it to the 8 hour Pleiades data i shot the difference is very noticeable.

Based on this my goal for Namibia next June is to shoot 6 hour panels - i think that will be the sweet spot in data quality versus available time when shooting deep multi panel mosaics.

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Winter is Coming - The Hunter, Chris Beere