Anubis1311
Well-Known Member
Cygnus Loop 4 panel mosaic.
Each panel had 12x300s Ha and 12x 300s Oiii
I originally attempted this with Pixinsight having downloaded the trial. However after numerous attempts of stacking the panels, performing dynamic background extraction, plate solving each panel, aligning with the mosaic by coordinate process, colour calibrating the background, stitching the panels with the gradientmergemosaic process…. The end results were pretty rubbish with clear lines where the 4 panels met. After a couple of days fighting against the image I bit the bullet and chucked it through Astro pixel processor. What a difference. Blew Pixinsight out of the water for mosaics. I stacked each panel, used the light pollution removal tool and then ran all 4 panels through using the mosaic function. Out popped a perfectly balanced mosaic. I combined an HOO version and then used Photoshop to finish. Despite only having 2 hours of data for each panel (1hr Ha & 1hr Oiii) I’m happy with the end result
Each panel had 12x300s Ha and 12x 300s Oiii
I originally attempted this with Pixinsight having downloaded the trial. However after numerous attempts of stacking the panels, performing dynamic background extraction, plate solving each panel, aligning with the mosaic by coordinate process, colour calibrating the background, stitching the panels with the gradientmergemosaic process…. The end results were pretty rubbish with clear lines where the 4 panels met. After a couple of days fighting against the image I bit the bullet and chucked it through Astro pixel processor. What a difference. Blew Pixinsight out of the water for mosaics. I stacked each panel, used the light pollution removal tool and then ran all 4 panels through using the mosaic function. Out popped a perfectly balanced mosaic. I combined an HOO version and then used Photoshop to finish. Despite only having 2 hours of data for each panel (1hr Ha & 1hr Oiii) I’m happy with the end result
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