The Tarantula Escape (Patrick Dufour)

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The Tarantula Escape

There would be so much more work that could be done on this project, but here I am releasing this version, just to be able to take a break lol!

This project consists of a mosaic of 9 frames with RGB, Ha and Oiii layers. The final composition image has a dimension of 24940 x 16242 pixels. 405 megapixels is very demanding on processing but I wanted to be able to take advantage of the resolution to offer a better impression in the end. Dealing with a mosaic with an object not far from the pole is challenging, mainly because of the field rotation between frames. I had to make compromises to highlight the extraordinary nebulosity of this region of the sky while keeping the background object: the Large Magellanic Cloud. Anyway I hope you like it!

9 x 90 x 120sec RGB
9 x 30 x 600sec Ha
9 x 20 x 600sec Oiii

NB composition using the Coldest Night's dynamic narrowband combination approach!

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Astroimaging from Chile
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