Apennines, 2-panel mosaic, 36s capture

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turfpit
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Apennines, 2-panel mosaic, 36s capture

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Just heard that this image made a Top Pick Nomination on Astrobin https://www.astrobin.com/2hexwt/

It has been an interesting couple of months for my imaging - on Astrobin, 2 Top Picks and 3 Top Pick Nominations plus an image published in July's Sky at Night magazine.

Hardware: Celestron C8 SCT, Celestron AVX mount, Skyris 236M, manual filter wheel, Baader 610nm red longpass filter, JMI MotoFocuser.
Capture: SharpCap, for each panel - SER, MONO8, 1000 frames @ 54fps, 1920x1200, gain=160, exposure=6ms, brightness=60, 610nm filter.
Processing: BiggSky - stack best 20% of 1000, deconvolution Tiles (800/80, denoise 0/1), Render=clip (gamma=1.5), auto crop. Stitch with MS ICE.

2025-08-13-Mosaic1_2334_9_2335_7_Stack_Decon_Tiled_View_16b_stitch.jpg
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Re: Apennines, 2-panel mosaic, 36s capture

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That is certainly a clear and well composed image!
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Re: Apennines, 2-panel mosaic, 36s capture

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Thanks Tim.

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