Contributions of the group 0P3N.ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY : night sky, stars, planets, galaxies and the whole univers

Prawn Nebula IC 4628

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:12:17 +0000

This was a very hard fought target. first and for most my old power distributor died, it just up and no longer worked. It was find a replacement. SVBony 241 Pro this gave me full power and the USB hub I had could be retired as it had fully functional USB hub on one side.

My first target with this camera I got some funny results and did not quite twig what was going on. That target you will not see till maybe next year to say at this point I was happy to have a new camera, I asked for a full refund.

This is the camera that was replaced from the USA night two at -10c all the very last shots of the night had squid ring on the photo. Carlos said sensor glass is frosted so to prove it I warmed the camera not for 10 min but for 20 min. Slowly but surely the squid rings got less and less.

Frost

So it was where do I go from here. I got in touch with the camera manufacture "what is going on". It seemed I was dumped out on my own. Then I hit on the idea, -10c why not try 0c summer temp shooting. you are looking at 3/4 of this shot coming from perfect 0c THE WHOLE Night shooting. I never got this from my original camera.

One thing I have learned Life is never meant to be easy you got to keep on your toes. The only thing constant is change and something going astray.

QHY268M -10c one night 5 min SHaO 20 odd shot each dumped 4 hours of data ,1 1/2 nights shooting at 0c whole nights data perfect, 20 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
SVBony 241 Pro Power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps

RCW133

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:51:57 +0000

Steve Paxton has posted:

This was a shot to take in three days of clear before the winter clouds and rain came in. As I was watching the images come in and stack I kept thinking I know this form. It took me two days of thinking (getting old) to work out yes this was so much the same as my high school arts lesson. The Girl with the Pearl Earring By Vermeer.

The face is turned a little differently but its almost Ghostly the similarity other than the missing star as an earring. The face is more profile than Vermeer's but so similar. Who ever said space has nothing to offer its boreing.

As this area is missing a lot of Oxygen this was shot as Ha SS.

QHY268M 0c 3 nights 5 min 120 shots SHa , 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
SVBony 241 Pro Power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps

NGC6188 Fighting Dragons Of Ara.

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:58:32 +0000

Steve Paxton has posted:

I set out to show the Dragons Fighting no more back ground than the camera showed. This is a two panel panorama but that's as far as I got one night of data on each panel. We are about to get hit once in 5 year storm and nothing but clouds and rain for the next month Nothing is going to be added to these shots. camera train is inside in a box with Silica gel till the rains and clouds clear.

The shot was taken with Ha S O filters you can see the result on the right hand side but PixInsight have added a conversion to the shot so the Filters show as a Normal coloured camera Left side. All previous conversions lacked any detail and show a more washed out look and why I insisted on the Hubble shots of SHaO as it held all the detail true to the shot.

So the Left side is Ha S O and RGB stars converted to a normal colour camera rendition. The Right side is SHaO in the Hubble pallet RGB stars. So Which is a better look of a normal RGB camera or a Mono camera with filters as pure narrow band colours.

6 Panel panorama

QHY268M -10c one night 5 min SHaO 20 odd shot each , 20 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps

Southern tadpoles. NGC3572

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:37:26 +0000

Steve Paxton has posted:

Part of the Carina complex with the small Southern Tadpoles Center of shot. The northern Tadpoles are much larger and more numerus

www.skyatnightmagazine.com/astrophotography/nebulae/tadpole-nebula-ic-410

This was a place I did want to come back to to try and do them justice that a colour camera just can not do. If you look middle of the shot you can make out the Horse shoe shape in the wide angle shot of the whole area.

Carina Nebula Wide Field.

QHY183M -10c 4 days 5 min SHaO 70 odd shot each , 40 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
ZWOFW and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps

The Emu Watching over us.

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:15:19 +0000

Steve Paxton has posted:

Well before the moon came up I saw this shot while I was on my own out in the landscape. The Emu in the Milky Way looking down at us as the milky way comes up on the Sagittarius Arm. This was only ever a TWO shot panorama more of the Sky than the ground but not forgetting the ground Lit by Low Level Lighting. Enjoy 1 am in the morning in the Black of night and the stars shining in the sky above.

D810 6400ISO 13sec
Samyang 14mm F2.4 @ 2.8

NGC 3522 The Wishing Well Cluster

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:12:47 +0000

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On the far Left the Cluster is Suppose to look like coins in a Fountain. This is a target that has So many stars it takes over the nebulas. This was second fiddle to

As it ran from 1am to Dawn as a fill in. Carina is top right just out of view.

QHY268M -0c 6 days 5 min SHaO 100 odd shot each , 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
ToupTek G3m Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps

NGC1928

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:01:44 +0000

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In part why I did a 42 panel look at the LMC area there is just so much here to look at. You can see this in the middle of the shot below.

This is almost the Heart of the LMC cloud we see in the sky at Night. I make 100% no apologies for the Number of stars in the Shot I have only tried to lower there value rather than the number.
Top left is the area we see the most shots of the LMC Tarantula Nebula but by no means the total of the LMC area.

This was shot over 6 nights till about 1 am before the LMC got really to low to image.
Enjoy one of the jewels of our Southern skies a Little bit more past the Normal...
QHY268M -0c 6 days 5 min SHaO 100 odd shot each , 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
ToupTek G3m Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps

First Bow of the night

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:59:40 +0000

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This was after the drive up we left Perth 8 pm it was then set up swag(one man tent) the drive over to the park. This was shot around 1 am in the morning. As there where still cars moving about there is some unusual lighting in the shot . Brake lights they have a great intensity I thought i had reshot them and removed it all but there is still evidence of it.

This is 360 degree view of the area we went to as there where others out and about. In all 5 others in the area and cars moving in the shot.
On the drive up we drove over( between the wheels) an echidna. the shot below was from the car head lights as we turned back to look at it as neither of us have ever seen one before. We waited for it to uncurl but it never did se we left it in peace to finish walking over the road.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna

Pip is a very different area but same park

D810 6400ISO 13sec
Samyang 14mm F2.4 @ 2.8

Sentinels of time and Stars.

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:55:38 +0000

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My last shot just before The moon was about to start showing at 1:20 am. The sky was Inky black and stars shone so well in the night sky. If you look closely at the bottom of the left hand end you can see the moon starting to have an effect.

Pip is a very different area but same park

D810 6400ISO 13sec
Samyang 14mm F2.4 @ 2.8

MOON rise.

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:57:42 +0000

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You can pick the fact the moon is about to rise the colour in the sky give's it away. Just below left hand end you can see the moon starting to rise the other bright light is made up of town ship and far right mining night lights.1:30am ish in the morning.

Pip is a very different area but same park

D810 6400ISO 13sec
Samyang 14mm F2.4 @ 2.8

Keel Nebula NGC3199

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:06:21 +0000

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The Keel Nebula with filters show so much more detail than the straight colour shot . This is in the Hubble pallet S Ha O.

The ship has changed colour due to the area being strong in Oxygen to a blue boat. Still a boat sailing on a sea of stars though past the rocks.

QHY268M -0c 6 days 5 min SHaO 120 shot each , 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
ToupTek G3m Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps

RCW 20 & 19 ( Bigger one)

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:41:49 +0000

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In the plan below you can see these two top left area ,This is still in the Vela area and once again an area not that much imaged but I have to say like the image. This was the only glitch that happened in Nina since I have been Using it. that was one whole night Ha filter shot the whole night dispite the fact all the other filters where in the program in the equence. I over came this by night two no Ha was shot just Oiii Sii till they caught up. I turned out it was a glitch in the program it was not just me but a lot of others that where also affected world wide.

This is in the Hubble pallet one of the most usefull pallets you can use.This is still part of the Orion arm that we are on and our sun. As said if you can see Orion in the sky you are looking at our arm of the milky way.

This is half way between the two target did not work as well as I thought so only two nights. NGC2451 is a galaxy but it is over shadowed by the big star and the resultant spikes from the spider.

QHY268M -0c 4 days 5 min SHaO full nights., 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps

Wind Swept Cosmic Mountains BBW 56

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:37:26 +0000

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This was a look see wide in planning to see what is about, this formation as a surfer stood out as a shark fin. You are looking at an area that is not normaly imaged if I had not got out to a wide view I would never have seen it at all.

So I had to wait for this to come up, you are looking at a panorama of 3 vertical shot to get the whole mountain in. This is a very Hydrogen rich area hence all the red so this is in the pallet Ha Sii Sii all red components.

Mid way I got the remnants of a cyclone but dumping Clouds and rain down our way. So I got the chance to bring in the Scope to clean the Mirrors and then rebuild ready to shoot again.

This is the lining up with the camera that sits in the Focuser looking in (The Red part in the middle ) all the part are rebulit to match the circle of the bottom of the focuser. its worth noteing the mirror in the picture is eliptical not at all round you have to get the view round ( see shot below).... that is the black frame in the middle with a view of the main mirror in view and the red camera and sensor. The main big area of white is a A4 sheet of white paper so the small secondary mirror stands out.

QHY268M -0c 5 min S Ha and three full nights of data , 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps

2025 + 2026 Accidental panorama Do look as large as you can.

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 08:49:52 +0000

Steve Paxton has posted:

The Gem Cluster NGC 3293 that is next to Carina. Originally taken as a fill in as the other shots got stopped at 2am by the palm tree this became a fill in.
Then the accident happened "what if" , my third shot with the QHY268M was of Gabriela Mistral area would they go together. PTGui put them straight together, so it meant a reedit so the two photos looked like they where taken to match. Then edit them both as one.

Differences between
2025 Feb is a horizontal shot, 2026 Jan is a rotated vertical shot.
Biggest is the dates a full year apart.
2025 is @-10 2026 is @ 0
2025 is the last taken with the Esatto focuser, 2026 Starpoint Australis SP3 focuser
And a trip to China for repairs.

Other wise every thing else is exactly the same. There is more data in the single shot than is in the shot in the panorama by two nights.
May be I should reedit with the full amount of data but as it was just a "what if" I went with what I had.

QHY268M -0c 4 days 5 min SHaO 2am to Nautical dawn and three full nights of data , 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps

Gem Cluster NGC 3293

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 08:50:26 +0000

Steve Paxton has posted:

The Gem Cluster NGC 3293 that is next to Carina. Originally taken as a fill in as the other shots got stopped at 2am by the palm tree this became a fill in. To get a photo of better quality I had to add a further 3 Full nights data to the data that was gained from the fill in time shots. The wisps you see are quite amazing.

Do read the info on the accidental panorama below.

QHY268M -0c 4 days 5 min SHaO 2am to Nautical dawn and three full nights of data , 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps

LDN1608 and Dust.

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:08:13 +0000

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LDN1608 is the small nebula on the left hand side of the shot I was taken by the dust lanes. Having walked a lot of NZ with my father he always had topographical maps of where we where walking. I was struck by the similarity of the rest of the image on the right side how much it looked like one of those maps. It was not unknown for my father to hand the map and compass to my bother and myself "we are lost" get us out of here. I am so glad I did not have this in WA almost flat face less land.

Another shot of the area but much closer up as the shot is made with a 1" sensor QHY183M verses a QHY268M ASPC both mono and same filters and same scope.. I took Oiii 41 shots as there was only one very small amount of blue nebula in the shot. Ha 79 shots and 126 shots Sii as this area is mostly these two elements . Sadly the palm tree is getting in the shot earlier and as I have been able to reach 20hours combined shot time I will move to a palm tree free target...

QHY268M -0c 6 days 5 min SHaO 8:20pm to 2 am , 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps

Lower's Nebula SH2-261

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:36:38 +0000

Steve Paxton has posted:

You have heard the saying Stuck between a Rock and Hard place. This is the result of 6 nights, The Rock is a Palm tree big and not going anywhere 2 am it all stops, the Hard place is the brand new street light JUST over the fence.

The monkey head had to be terminated much as I wanted to take more it got so low it was in direct line with the Street light every thing failed. This was the Nebula I really wanted to do but the Bright light ended that. BUT I have asked the question to the local council can they put a Skirt on the light my side so there is No direct light shining into the telescope.

Do I do not hold much out that there will be help forth coming other than tough luck.

Lower's Nebula or SH2-261 is one you have seen before but nothing like this. These targets are on the Orion arm of the Milky way Thats Where we the earth are on.... these are all in the South Hemisphere Northern targets.

QHY268M -0c 6 days 5 min SHaO 8:20pm to 2 am , 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps

Seagull Nebula SH2-296

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:47:41 +0000

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This was one that I wanted to come back to as I could rotate my view to suit the target much like I could when I used my 300mm Nikon lens and coloured camera. This was done as a 3 panel vertical panorama to get the whole of the spread of the wings. It was a case of for each panel I shot for 3 nights each to get enough data to get all the smaller parts to show up in detail. I shot at my summer temp of -0 as some of the days where well over 30c when I started hence the start temp of 0c rather than -10c. The value of the filters they show up considerably more details than the coloured camera ever could.

QHY268M -0c 3 days 5 min SHaO each panel, 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, PtGui, Ps

Dolphin Head Nebula SH2-308

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:30:14 +0000

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Known as Shapeless SH 2-308 As this is my last image for the year Happy New Year to all on Ipernity.

This is an area very strong in Oxygen (blue) the visible gasses blown about. This is 28hours of data capture of Ha and Oiii and combined as HaOiiiOiii to get the object above. As its getting consistently warmer its harder to work with -10c as I started this so I will end and start on summer -0c.

The filters bring out the very faint red found in the background the the colour camera does not see nor the faint blue wisps next to the head. Enjoy one of the Marvels of space.

QHY268M -10c 6 days 5 min HaO , 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, PtGui, Ps

Large Magellanic Cloud 42 panels : Do look at this as large as you can.

nobody@ipernity.com (Steve Paxton) — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:34:05 +0000

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So what are you looking at in the picture above, on the right side there are two white clouds the Big one is the Large Magellanic cloud and the small is the small Magellanic cloud. Above is detail of the Larger one.

This looks like one photo but is far from it the more that you read you will see just what I mean.

This was the bold plan that I started on the 17/10/2025 I had thought to do two nights per panel but 70 nights clear was way to big an ask. I settled on the 35 nights as a far more realistic plan. It entailed getting the images SHaO and RGB stars edit the data then save it as per panel number of the night. Slowly build the panorama up each morning, As panel 35 came up first I started and worked down to 1. As I noted there is more missing targets on the right side just out of view I made a new panorama of 7 panels pushing the number up to 42. So I had a written plan
Panel 5 Joins 36
Panel10 Joins 37
Panel15 Joins 38
Panel 20 Joins 39
Panel 25 Joins 40
Panel 30 Joins 41
Panel 35 Joins 42

As well as the original plan above So I knew just where every thing lined up trying to match the jumble of photos I had.

It became very obvious that my normal workings was not going to work as the panorama build it got over 4 GB and in some programs not editable. I spent one whole day saving files slowly shrinking to find out the right size to keep me under 4Gb saved tiff file. I have had to slowly shrink it down further to get the bigger panorama under 4GB. I started at 100% save size now down to 70% save size as the panorama got bigger and bigger. The original size is 36253 x 27872 pixels a far cry to the 4000 one above so I can upload to Ipernity and 7.36Gb size. When it has come to editing the shot as its is so big it is set edit off then let it process. nothing is fast it is a real test of patience.

This is an area I have always wanted a closer look at the targets, there is a bucket load of them here I have put the ones I have taken as PIP's so you are able to see them in more detail. I will come back and shoot some of what looks like hole through to another world past this target. Look at the top middle and bottom right you can see "blacker areas" in the middle of a lot of smaller nebula's. There is even a human form in blue at the top playing with two balls in the right hand well worth a look at.... There is so many shapes and forms in this shot its a delight to look at full size but sadly not able to down load here.

QHY268M -10c & -0c Very hot days 5 min SHaO over 42 nights , 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, PtGui, Ps