This six section mosaic was taken on 8 separate evenings .
I was using an Atik 383L mono CCD camera piggybacked on my ten inch reflector with a 200mm lens and Astronomik narrowband filters attached to the front of the lens, HA , O111 and Blue,
I captured five minute sub frames with matching dark frames and combined them with flat field frames to reduce the effect of noise and vignetting in the final image .
The total exposure time for each section was 90 minutes using a HA filter , 15 minutes using an O111 filter and ten minute using a blue filter .
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