Mosaic making!

[Brendan of Borg]

Hi folks,

I see mention of making a mosaic for a better picture!

Anyone know how this works? My primary target would be the Moon btw.

Cheers astro-friends!

Brendan

[Digz]

Im no expert but I have done a rough mosaic. I just shot the moon (with my 250p ds and D200 with a 2x barlow) made sure there was sufficient overlap in the shot and CS4 did a good job of stitching together.

Im sure there are better, more accurate methods but as a start this worked reasonably well.

[Psychobilly]

Try the free Microsoft ICE app...

Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor (ICE)

It was updated in june and now has multi core support and can handle gigapixel images

Peter...

[TopHouse]

There's a really good tutorial on here somewhere, it uses iMerge to help get all your shots covered, will edit this post and provide a link.

EDIT

Here's the link :-

http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-tips-tricks-techniques/104876-making-lunar-mosaic.html

I'm going to have a go at this myself once this @*$# cloud clears.

[Brendan of Borg]

Thank you so much for the valuable responses!

I do not own CS4 but great to see some free software 'out there' to use. Phew!

Thanks for taking the time folks - it's appreciated!

Brendan

[jgs001]

Brendan, it means you can use a high frame rate (tends to be small sensor, and therefore small FOV) to create a full disk image of the moon. The details tend to be far better than using an SLR to capture the data.

[Brendan of Borg]

Thanks John.

Think I'll be doing a spot of fiddling with multiple images in the near future!