Utah Astrophotography
Milky Way Mosaic April 2024 Reprocess 10k
Decided to go back to this and give it a reprocess with the newest PixInsight updates and methods. This is a mosaic of the MW Core Region I did 3 years ago, shot with a ZWO ASI2600mc Pro and Voigtlander 110mm APO lens. It is a 20 panel mosaic with each panel consisting of 45-60 minutes of data. The original processing had a lot of problems, it was extremely difficult to manage all the data, gradients, star size differences, color changes from panel to panel, etc. As a result there were a lot of stitching artifacts, gradient/color artifacts, and destructive star processing methods used to get the final version I posted.
This new version uses several new tools within PI to maintain star quality, image color, overall detail, and noise management. I also tried as best as I could to reduce stitching artifacts. There's still some problems, mostly the blues around the core area that aren't entirely accurate and some "haziness" for lack of a better word. I'll keep working on it in the short term while our spring weather rollercoaster continues and we can't get any imaging done anyways.
This is a "10k" version of the image in only jpg quality, I had originally drizzle integrated the files, but the final stitch size was too large for any software to properly save/process the file. So I resampled by 50%, then downsampled another 50% for uploading purposes. The non-"internet" version is almost 20k pixels on the long edge!
Milky Way Mosaic April 2024 Reprocess 10k
Decided to go back to this and give it a reprocess with the newest PixInsight updates and methods. This is a mosaic of the MW Core Region I did 3 years ago, shot with a ZWO ASI2600mc Pro and Voigtlander 110mm APO lens. It is a 20 panel mosaic with each panel consisting of 45-60 minutes of data. The original processing had a lot of problems, it was extremely difficult to manage all the data, gradients, star size differences, color changes from panel to panel, etc. As a result there were a lot of stitching artifacts, gradient/color artifacts, and destructive star processing methods used to get the final version I posted.
This new version uses several new tools within PI to maintain star quality, image color, overall detail, and noise management. I also tried as best as I could to reduce stitching artifacts. There's still some problems, mostly the blues around the core area that aren't entirely accurate and some "haziness" for lack of a better word. I'll keep working on it in the short term while our spring weather rollercoaster continues and we can't get any imaging done anyways.
This is a "10k" version of the image in only jpg quality, I had originally drizzle integrated the files, but the final stitch size was too large for any software to properly save/process the file. So I resampled by 50%, then downsampled another 50% for uploading purposes. The non-"internet" version is almost 20k pixels on the long edge!