Milkyway Montage

[multiweb (Marc)]

Finaly finished my milkyway Ha Pano. Still a bit noisy and I'll probably need more data but considering the weather doesn't look like it's going to cooperate and the moon's up it'll have to wait.

Meanwhile I located most of the DSOs I shot over the years and did a little montage as a reference map.

The big file is here (5.4MB) 6834x2848 px
Smaller one here (1.2MB) 3000x1250 px

Enjoy the pano. There's a bit of everything in it.

[TrevorW]

Very nice Marc well put together you'll need to print a large one of that and mount it

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Very impressive well done

[spearo (Frank)]

Nice work
should make a fine poster
frank

[Antu]

Wow ! That could be a very nice poster !

[AlexN]

Would LOVE a printed poster of that mate... Very impressive.

[White Rabbit]

Like it.

[oosh (Jason)]

Nicely presented mate - would indeed look great hung up.

[Ross G]

Hi Marc,

Looks amazing..you're an artist as well!

I get to see where all the DSOs are in relation to each other.

Thanks.

Ross.

[DavidU (Dave)]

Absolutely superb Marc

[OICURMT]

Pro-Quality!

A good way to view a variety of objects and their relative position to each other.

Definitely poster material.

[RickS (Rick)]

Beautiful work, Marc! I'd buy a poster too

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Everybody loves a montage.....gotta get me a montage

Were going to need a montage (montage)
Ooh it takes a montage (montage)

Very nice Marc, premium work there mate....

C'est Magnifique!!!

Cheers

Chris

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Very nice Marc well put together you'll need to print a large one of that and mount it

Thanks Trev. I don't think it's print material though (yet).

Originally Posted by mswhin63

Very impressive well done

Thanks for looking mate.

Originally Posted by spearo

Nice work
should make a fine poster
frank

Thanks Frank. Eventually.

Originally Posted by AlexN

Would LOVE a printed poster of that mate... Very impressive.

Thanks Alex. Will take a raincheck on that. Re-shoot some parts, smooth the data, tidy it up and I'll make it available via FTP somewhere. Maybe RAR it. I think the TIFF is a bit over 100MB.

Originally Posted by White Rabbit

Like it.

Thanks mate.

Originally Posted by oosh

Nicely presented mate - would indeed look great hung up.

Thank you very much.

Originally Posted by Ross G

Hi Marc,

Looks amazing..you're an artist as well!

I get to see where all the DSOs are in relation to each other.

Thanks.

Ross.

Hey Ross! Thanks mate. I got that lens! Thanks heaps for the heads-up!

Originally Posted by DavidU

Absolutely superb Marc

Thanks for the kind comment David.

Originally Posted by OICURMT

Pro-Quality!

A good way to view a variety of objects and their relative position to each other.

Definitely poster material.

Thanks mate. Yeah it's a good reference to see the positions, relative brightness and how it all fits together. All of a sudden the milkyway doesn't look that big.

Originally Posted by RickS

Beautiful work, Marc! I'd buy a poster too

Thanks for looking Rick. As I told Alex I'll make the final available for people who want to print it out. No worries.

Originally Posted by Screwdriverone

Everybody loves a montage.....gotta get me a montage

Were going to need a montage (montage)
Ooh it takes a montage (montage)

Very nice Marc, premium work there mate....

C'est Magnifique!!!

Cheers

Chris

Merci beaucoup Chris.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Fantastic project and presentation, very cool Marc

Eddie was way ahead of his time - a trail blazzer

Mike

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Fantastic project and presentation, very cool Marc

Eddie was way ahead of his time - a trail blazzer

Mike

Yeah Eddie's a legend. Always browsing astroshed. He's the man.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Nicely done, Marc. Very well thought and set out. Great work

[Hagar (Doug)]

Very nice Marc. That pretty well covers it. If I can make on sugestion. The bottom display box would look better being flat on the bottom not skewed to the side.
Otherwise brilliant work.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by renormalised

Nicely done, Marc. Very well thought and set out. Great work

Thanks for the comments Carl. I'm glad you liked it

Originally Posted by Hagar

Very nice Marc. That pretty well covers it. If I can make on sugestion. The bottom display box would look better being flat on the bottom not skewed to the side.
Otherwise brilliant work.

Thanks Doug. Too kind TBH there are a lot of things that I'm not happy with in this picture considering the amount of time I took to get the data. Bit of frustration with not being able to register the stacks properly and use all the subs I have. At 35mm I found it a real challenge to get CCDIS or even registar to do anything remotely acceptable with star patterns matching. I got a 200mm lens which I'm going to use to get a better image scale and reshoot the sub panels and use this one as a reference scaffold.

Yeah I get what you say about the M16/17 sideways. I only did that so the zoom lines don't intersect the sides of the two other pics, top and bottom, and also tried to match their orientation in the scaffold. Obviously I didn't do a very good job at it.

Ultimately I will have this totally interactive so when you rollover the milkyway the side tiles update with a link to the area you hover on. First I need a decent milkyway that I don't have to hide behind big panels.

[Ric]

Excellent work Marc.

I think you have done a wonderful job in its presentation.