Panel stitching programme

[bomberbaz]

Hello everyone. 

AS per the title looking for a decent programme for stitching panels of the sun (the moon as well I guess) together.

The simpler to use, the better. To me ease of use is more important that a slight increase in quality as a serious lack of patience lives within me as of the last few years.

I am quite happy with a moderately good result really. So what does anybody use please

Cheers

Steve

[Freddie]

You can use photo merge in PS if you have it or Microsoft ICE (free download) is also good.

[Star Struck]

Microsoft ICE has worked for me in every #cenario I have used it.

And it is free......

[WilliamAstro]

Try Autostitch, It is a great photo stitching software with no pay! You can download it.

Edited May 13, 2020 by WilliamAstro

[Altocumulus]

^^^What they said

 

[tooth_dr]

Interesting topic, I just posted a thread looking for help!

All above have failed recently for me so I assume I’m doing something wrong.  If I post the frames here would someone try it for me please?

Edited May 13, 2020 by tooth_dr

[happy-kat]

Are there edges on your frames that overlap,, if not that might be the issue

[tooth_dr]

4 minutes ago, happy-kat said:

Are there edges on your frames that overlap,, if not that might be the issue

I think so, but maybe not enough, that could be it. 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

For H-alpha on the sun I have only been able to get consistent results with AutoStitch

[tooth_dr]

Would anyone have a quick look at these panels to see if there are any glaring problems?  It's kinda putting me off imaging the solar disk, because it feels like a pointless exercise.  If I could find out what I'm doing wrong it would be great. Hopefully @bomberbaz doesnt mind the slight hijack, although it may be applicable to his question.

 

 

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[happy-kat]

Do you know how those over lap on a grid layout?

[tooth_dr]

10 minutes ago, happy-kat said:

Do you know how those over lap on a grid layout?

Mostly serpantine, but the bottom row order is mix up as I started right in the centre at the bottom.  But mostly bottom left corner to bottom right, up one row, then across to left, then up a row and across to right etc.

[happy-kat]

How many tiles in a row?

[Ibbo!]

A few years ago when I used the PST mod, small chip camera and the permanent mount I used The Sky mosaic function to automatically do the panes with a 20% overlap.

I did 15 sec captures and joined them either using Photomerge in PS or ICE.

If that failed I did sometimes e mail them to a friend who had autopan giga (£££££) and if that did not sort it nothing else would.

 

Not sure this helps you.

 

[bomberbaz]

microsoft ICE I have heard of, never used it though but I shall give it a go as a starter.

I will try autostitch if that fails.

Thanks guys.

[happy-kat]

2 hours ago, happy-kat said:

Do you know how those over lap on a grid layout?

If you did have that mapped out you could build the stitch in rows, then combine two rows, then stitch another block etc. building your full image.

i selected 5 images to download and 2 stitched together, but I have no idea of whether they were adjoining images as I do not have the overall grid and file name layout to work from. 

[tooth_dr]

18 minutes ago, happy-kat said:

If you did have that mapped out you could build the stitch in rows, then combine two rows, then stitch another block etc. building your full image.

Thanks that’s a good idea I never thought of that. 

[Altocumulus]

Over how many minutes are these covering? I'm wondering if the sun was perhaps changing too much between the first and the last?

[tooth_dr]

1 hour ago, Altocumulus said:

Over how many minutes are these covering? I'm wondering if the sun was perhaps changing too much between the first and the last?

Perhaps!  I tried stitching just rows of panels last night and the top three rows worked but the bottom three failed.  I renamed them in sequence and still it failed . I think poor seeing at one point may have affect some panels.

The mosaic was 32 minutes from start to finish, but with 6 rows done in a zig zag fashion, probably leas than 5 minutes between adjacent row panels.

 

Edited May 14, 2020 by tooth_dr

[Altocumulus]

It's possible - the stitching would need some similarity between the images - I assume you had a generous overlap....

[tooth_dr]

22 minutes ago, Altocumulus said:

It's possible - the stitching would need some similarity between the images - I assume you had a generous overlap....

I’ve attached all the images above if you want to check the overlap?

[Altocumulus]

I opened the final four - my immediate thought is whether there's enough contrast for the stitching program to latch onto. Perhaps someone else has managed.....

[tooth_dr]

1 minute ago, Altocumulus said:

I opened the final four - my immediate thought is whether there's enough contrast for the stitching program to latch onto. Perhaps someone else has managed.....

I think that’s also an option. I might need to address that in capture. I also did increase in the contrast of each / curves adjustment in ImPPG, and then try mosaic again and it failed. 

[happy-kat]

I managed to stitch some of the edge panes together, but none of the middle panes stitched using ICE

[happy-kat]