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Category Archives: Creating mosaics
The Full Monty
Unbelievably last night was the 3rd clear night in a row – Moonless too!! So – making best use of this gift I managed to grab the final left hand frame on the North America 3-pane mosaic. This is a … Continue reading
EPOD – Brockenhurst church in the snow – large mosaic
Today’s EPOD (Earth Science Picture of the Day) is a 16-frame mosaic of St. Nicholas’ church in Brockenhurst taken during the recent snow fall. This mosaic was stitched together using the amazing PTGui software package which does a great job … Continue reading
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The largest, highest resolution, deep-sky print to date
Noel has just processed our largest deep-sky dataset to-date (there is a larger one waiting to be finished). This is the Cocoon nebula with the associated huge dark nebulosity. The picture below shows a print I just made on the … Continue reading
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Galaxy wall mega poster – the NFO Spring mega-project of 2010
Noel Carboni is currently assembling the NFO Spring mega project of 2010. This is a massive mosaic of the Virgo/Coma galaxy cluster region centred on the famous Markarian Chain of galaxies. This mosaic is created from a number of frames … Continue reading
M100 – left hand frame
I took the frame to the left of M100 last night using a bit of dead-reckoning – and unbelievably I scored a perfect hit 🙂 So the top two frames on the Markarian Chain mega-mosaic are now complete! The bottom … Continue reading
M100 region now
So last night was another unexpectedly clear night and I imaged the M100 region. I did not expect that this frame would fit onto the ultra-mega-Markarian Chain mosaic, but of course it does – perfectly – at the top. I … Continue reading
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Just to the right of M87 in Virgo
This is another frame to add to the mega-mosaic that is the Markarian Chain region on the Coma/Virgo border. Just processed by Noel this is the region just to the right (West) of M87 and will make up one of … Continue reading
Registar – registration software
I have just purchased some incredibly powerful registration software called Registar. I played with the free download version for a few days before deciding I couldn’t live without this one and bought it today 🙂 It is really useful to … Continue reading
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Waning harvest Moon 19th September 2008
I don’t do planets, or the Moon, as my deep-sky setup is not geared up for these. However, last night’s Moon prompted me into action.
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