my 1st go at full mosaic

[bm1980]

Hi all this was my 1st go at full cresent mosaic, captured on 8/04/10

15 avi files of about 200 frames each then stacked in registax and merged in ms ice, bit mad as i missed a small piece of the moon hopefully next time i will do better, any comments welcome

Regards

Ben

[Psychobilly]

Nicely done...

I havent doen one for ages... I alwsys use dto do a circuit of the perimiter of the moon at tth end of the session.. i also wonder if its worth doign a pan and scan job with short pauses where you can extract an combine a few frames for any missing bits...

I know others put the AVI's into imerge to generate a quick check mosaic as they are capturing the avi's for the panes...

Billy...

[bm1980]

Thanks Billy i have heard about imerge i think i will try using it next time hopefully see improvments then.

Regards Ben

[Bizibilder]

Very good image, Ben. I attempted a mosaic the other night and joined the "you missed a bit" club as well! If using Imerge (very useful) go for at least 10% overlap (15% better) as the stacking process can "crop" your frames a bit - that's how I lost out - one or two thin black lines between frames!! I was trying to "just" overlap to save time and paid the price.

[jgs001]

Pretty good first mosaic Ben. The bit that's missing can be cloned in, it'll work ok. I'm of the make a mosaic in imerge as you go group. It works great.

[bm1980]

Thanks for the comments hopefully if i use imerge i can get out of the " you missed a bit" club and join the "imerge as you go" club

Regards

Ben

[bm1980]

Every time i look at this mosaic it does my head in! is there a way of filling in the missed bit ?and also adding some black around it to finnish it off, or if somebody wants to have a go at cleaning it up for me i would apreciate it, i might then be happy with it and print it out.

Thanks

Ben

[jgs001]

Ben, You mean something like ...

Clone tool, select a suitable and close enough point, clone over the missing hole...I did some black to cover the gaps that were left from the fill bucket on an MS ICE mosaic. iMerge doesn't leave the gaps and fills the entire background in black. Hmm... didn't see the white bit at the top left in my editor.. but clone the black into there too. or just crop it off.

[bm1980]

Thanks John that image looks so much better now and i am definatly going to download imerge for future attempts. Could you post a link to a reliable web page to download imerge from.

Thanks again Ben

[jgs001]

You're welcome Ben, it was a quick edit with the small image, so probably won't look too good if you try to blow it up...

Here you go

iMerge

[bm1980]

Thanks for the link John ,just having a go a cleaning up the original image will post when complete

Regards

Ben

[bm1980]

I am now happy with this image here is the final finnished image ,i think?

Thanks

Ben

[jgs001]

Looks like you did a good job on patching the hole Ben