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

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