After seeing the amazing work of @johnnywang, @Lingbin Zhang, @XiuQi, and @Shang, I became obsessed with the possibility of replicating it from home. So, I went to extend the previously photographed mosaic of Rho Ophiuchi during August (You can check this work here: https://www.astrobin.com/bs1d1f/ - I proudly received my first top pick, and I couldn't be happier with the repercussion.). Fortunately, by using N.I.N.A., I was lucky enough to get the framing of the whole region correctly, as I made 3 separate mosaics, and in the end, it worked out!

The Rho Ophiuchus panels were taken from the 16th of July until the 8th of August. Subsequently, the Dark Horse Nebula mosaic started on September 2nd and ended on September 7th. finally, my goal was to get to the end of the Milky Way, and also to do another panorama until M16, but soon the rainy season started, along with the galactic center setting too early. I managed to photograph only up to the Lagoon nebula and a piece of IC1283 (not on framing, as it exceeded the 3 vertical panel length), during September 27th to September 30th.

Each panel was stacked separately with Astro Pixel Processor in my notebook, taking 2 hours each- this step took 2 days of single panel stacking (remember- each panel is composed of a maximum of 20 frames). The entire mosaic was put together by my good friend @Arcturus Photography on his computer. With his own words, "I’ve thrown all 32GB of RAM and 15 threads on an overclocked i9-9900K at it, and it looks like the whole will take about 6-7 hours to process!".

Unfortunately, I'm still using a computer with only 4GB RAM. So, I needed to resize 50% and then 80%. A lot of details were lost in this way, which really saddened me. The exposure time of each panel varies from 30 to 40 minutes in total. This leads to a great amount of noise, but nothing that Noise Reduction can't take care of. Noise reduction isn't 100% effective when you're dealing with undersampled stars. Some artifacts are still visible, but, I think they're on the second plane and the exchange is worth it for a better overall view. I usually don't like to use Photoshop, as shown, it usually makes the image a bit plastic and unnatural. But it was necessary to overcome some panels that ended up with a different color balance. Anyways, I was able to reach this interesting result. I still hope to improve the overall quality of this project next year by acquiring longer exposure times. But I admit that I was very happy with the final result, especially since it was an improvised capture and almost entirely manual.