A 100 hour, 36 pane mosaic, with 3 Takahashi's and full frame CCDs. The main data is taken at a resolution of 0.53m, with extra 1m resolution added to the centre of the Swan and Eagle nebulae and the Lagoon and Trifid nebuale. The data was taken from the Almanzora Valley in Spain, and Les Granges in Provence over 4 Summers from 2012 to 2015. I captured the Luminance layers in 2012, and I managed to obtain 2 RGB layers in 2013. It was not until the Summer of 2015 when I was able to finish the RGB, and add in another LRGB panel, and also capture the Ha data for the central rift. This image spans across the constellations of Scorpius, Sagittarius and Ophiuchius. In the bottom right is the Barnard 72 Snake, over to M22 the Globular Cluster, and up to The Eagle and Swan Nebulae. In the top right you have the star fields in Ophiuchius.

Tags:   Galactic Centre Galactic Center FSQ Astrophotography Deep Sky Widefield Galaxy Milky Way Ophiuchius Sagittarius scorpius scorpio

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This is the Orion Mosaic from 2015, but its now available in zoomify pane at 40% full size on my site. This is approx the max size I can print it at. 1.8m x 1m
Check it out here:
www.astrophotography.ie/mosaics.htm

Tags:   Orion Space 400hr deepsky FSQ106 Tak Mosaic astrophotography wintersky

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60 hour 5 pane Mosaic LRGB Tak FSQ106N and Atik 11000

Tags:   deepspace competition:astrophoto=2013 ;astrophotogrpahy Takahashi FSQ Astronomy Astroboy Rho Ophuichi Ophiuchi Antares

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IC342 The Hidden Galaxy in Camelopardalis. This was Short-Listed in the Galaxy Category at this years Astrophotographer of the Year 2018 Royal Observatory Greenwich London.
This elusive galaxy is obscured by the Milky Way dust making capturing and processing the Galaxy a very difficult task to achieve a satisfactory image. This image has the added Ha to a previous upload which gave it a lot more "pop". This has 24hrs of data taken at 1m in a TEC140 and an Atik 460ex.

Tags:   galaxy IC342

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The Running Mana nd Orion Nebula. 200mins of L and 250mins of RGB taken with ATK 4Meg cameras and 2 Taks. The L was taken with an FSQ106N, while the colour was taken with an FSQ85.

Tags:   Orion Nebula M42 NGC1977 Running Man FSQ ATK Deep Sky Imaging Astrophotography Astro Astroboy Atik 4000CCD SolarEclipse ccd nebula astro:RA=83.8397020228 astro:Dec=-5.23005315904 astro:pixelScale=5.69 astro:orientation=-179.77 astro:fieldsize=1.62 x 1.62 degrees astro:name=The star 42Ori astro:name=The star θ1Ori astro:name=The star θ2Ori astro:name=The star ιOri astro:name=The star 45Ori astro:name=NGC 1973 astro:name=NGC 1975 astro:name=NGC 1976 astro:name=Great Nebula in Orion astro:name=M 42 astro:name=NGC 1980 astro:name=NGC 1977 astro:name=NGC 1982 astro:name=M 43 Astrometrydotnet:version=13838 Astrometrydotnet:id=alpha-201002-76430501 Astrometrydotnet:status=solved competition:astrophoto=2011 deepspace

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