M31 - Mosaic Test

[daz]

Finally got round to starting a proper mosaic in SGP, and putting skills in PI into practice from Warren Keller's excellent book! This is not a fully processed image by any means, just a 1st attempt at the alignment workflow for the mosaic. 

• T: Skywatcher ED80
• M: EQ6-AZGT
• C: AtikOne
• G: AtikGP
• F: Luminance
• E: 4 panes, each 6 x 300s; fov for each pane is 1.19 deg x 0.95 deg;

Basic Process in PI:

• Calibrate
• Cosmic Correction
• Star Align
• Image Integration
• Crop
• ABE
• Star Align for Mosaic
• ABE
• Histogram
• Curves

So, pleased with the outcome - cannot see the seam at all. Yes, the data is noisy - rejection needs tweaking and needs heaps of data, but the workflow for creating the mosaic makes sense having run through a few times tonight!