Heart Nebula & Westerhout 5 SHO Mosaic

Heart Nebula & Westerhout 5 SHO Mosaic
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Heart Nebula & Westerhout 5 SHO Mosaic

Here's a mosaic, I created, using data of the Heart Nebula from the SPA-3 scope and Westerhout 5 from the SPA-1 scope. I used Photometric Mosaic in Pixinsight to create the mosaic....it was quite tedious to get the panels to match since they were taken with 2 different scopes and the fields were rotated, a bit, with respect to each other, so there was some distortion to correct. It's also dithered which really added to the computer time it took to process. As close as I could figure, there's over 30 hours of total exposure time.
Anyway, hope ya like my Heart & Soul!
Tom
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Telescope
SPA-1 & SPA-3 Takahashi FSQ-106ED, Takahshi FSQ-106EDX4
Camera ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Camera
FLI PL 16803
Location ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Location
IC Astronomy Observatory, Spain
Date of observation ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Date of observation
January 2021-February 2022
Filters ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Filters
Astrodon 3nm H, S, O
Processing ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Processing
Pixinsight
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