While this looks like a single photo it is so far from it. This is a 6 panel Panorama 2 night each panel. All in narrowband in the Hubble pallet . This shot is only a fraction of the 80MB size of the real photo. This is my fav part of the milky way you can see the dragons fighting over the egg below.

While panoramas are nothing new to me this is my very first look at Narrow band and RGB stars. So each panel is combined as NB background kept stars removed and thrown away RGB stars combined combined and back ground thrown away. The two are combined and saved and slowly added to panel by panel till finally finished. These where all added to PTGui and straight up the panorama was combined perfectly.

Once the panorama made remove stars to edit the background then add back the stars. As its such a long winded process I had to make notes that I could follow to get every thing to match up and get this final result. A very long winded process but i believe will worth the time and effort.

I have to say this has far exceeded where I ever thought my astro photography would ever lead to. I can retire now and not take another photo ............



Contrast the colour camera shot. This has been made a whole lot harder by winter rains and clouds this is my only target for the whole month as its been so hard to buy cloud free nights.

to show you how much extra detail the mono camera picks up never see this small rig nebula before there is no detail of it on the colour camera shot above. With a bit of hunting I found out the names of the two very small nebulas. Left the ring PCG 11 "Shark mouth" and the brighter on on the right Henize 2- 169 a tiny Planetary Nebula.



QHY268M -10c 50 Odd shots 5 min each filter over 2 nights per panel 6 panels in size.. 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser Rotated 22 degrees from last
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, Lr