Mozaic question

[edarter]

Hi, 

Over the last week or so I've been capturing a 4 panel mozaic of the heart nebula using NINA. I've yet to do any processing of the image sets at all but it's just occurred to me that I'm not sure how you go about blending the overlaps!

I'm guessing I treat each of the 4 panels as a different project and stack all images for that panel but without any processing, then when I have all 4 stacks I stitch them together and only then start processing? 

There is a fair bit of vignetting which my flats should hopefully get rid of most of but I'm suspicious it's all going to turn in to a horrible mess when everything is bought together, any tips gratefully received! 

Thanks

Ed

[gilesco]

4 minutes ago, edarter said:

Hi, 

Over the last week or so I've been capturing a 4 panel mozaic of the heart nebula using NINA. I've yet to do any processing of the image sets at all but it's just occurred to me that I'm not sure how you go about blending the overlaps!

I'm guessing I treat each of the 4 panels as a different project and stack all images for that panel but without any processing, then when I have all 4 stacks I stitch them together and only then start processing? 

There is a fair bit of vignetting which my flats should hopefully get rid of most of but I'm suspicious it's all going to turn in to a horrible mess when everything is bought together, any tips gratefully received! 

Thanks

Ed

I'm in process of doing the same. HOO of Heart Nebula. I'm using the mosaic registration process in AstroPixelProcessor.

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