16 pane mosaic 2016.10.23

[Pete Presland]

1st chance for some Solar imaging for over 2 weeks, its that time of the year again  Lovely clear blue skies for a while this morning, so I thought I would try another mosaic.

 Lunt50 D/S, DMK21au618. 1,000 frames per pane, 16 panes captured in Firecapture, cropped in C/S2, stitched in Autostitch, ICE wouldn't do the whole disc so just JPEG's not TIFF files. Looks a bit pixelated at full, maybe because of this?

[Yamez]

very nice mosaic. Great job.

[xtreemchaos]

cracking mosaic Pete, lovely detail as allways. glad you got some solar time.  well done.  thanks , charl.

[Uranium235]

Very nice. Must take a look at autostitch sometime soon, as ICE can occasionally throw a wobbly.

[Pete Presland]

3 minutes ago, Uranium235 said:

Very nice. Must take a look at autostitch sometime soon, as ICE can occasionally throw a wobbly.

Only handles JPEG's I think though.

[David Smith]

Great disk Pete.

[Davey-T]

Well done Pete, nice to get enough Sun for a mosaic.

Dave

[Pete Presland]

1 minute ago, Davey-T said:

Well done Pete, nice to get enough Sun for a mosaic.

Dave

Limited the runs to a 1000 frames per pane, might go for a few more next time.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Looks pretty good to me. AutoStitch only outputs JPEG, but can read almost any format. You can set output quality to 99% which may avoid pixellation effects. It is also important to first sharpen the panes in e.g. ImPPG, and then stitch, as sharpening after conversion to JPEG causes all sorts of problems.

[Montana]

A fab full disc

Alexandra

[Pete Presland]

15 hours ago, michael.h.f.wilkinson said:

Looks pretty good to me. AutoStitch only outputs JPEG, but can read almost any format. You can set output quality to 99% which may avoid pixellation effects. It is also important to first sharpen the panes in e.g. ImPPG, and then stitch, as sharpening after conversion to JPEG causes all sorts of problems.

Thanks for the advice.  Definitely going to have another go at this tonight. 

[Tyson M]

Very nice mosaic. Well done