Best result so far! PST Solar 22/02/13

[asimov]

A 15 pane mosaic & I'm glad I did it if this is going to be the result! :lol:;):D No proms to worry about:thumbsup:

Happy as!:)

PST/DMK

[h0ughy]

nice - im not game for a pano yet so congratulations

[Solar]

Top job John:thumbsup:
Now for the secret,!!!

[Larryp]

Excellent result, John

[Steffen]

Very nice! Fifteen panes :eyepop:

Cheers
Steffen.

[04Stefan07]

Excellent photo mate!

[RB]

Wow, very nice indeed John.
Well done mate.

[asimov]

Thanks guys.

Ralph, I'd have to put you in a pine box after me telling the secret to PST imaging mate...;):lol::thumbsup:

[Matt Wastell]

Hi John
That is a shot for the PST books! Really great stuff!

[asimov]

Hi Matt & thanks! Gotta love this little 40mm.

[ourkind]

I so agree with that statement!

That's a Gem John! Well done!

[Solar]

G Day John,
Not to far off the pine box anyway.
I was more interested in the gradient removal in the image. There is no trace all of blending, pretty neat.
This is the first image I ever took from a PST with a Phillips Tou-cam.

Cheers mate.

[asimov]

Lol. Well we are all not far from the pine box Ralph, technically speaking..

A fine first PST image mate!

Ah yes, that secret - Plenty of overlap is the answer. 6 pane minimum at this scale, but 11 or 15 is a lot better due to the unevenness of the FOV illumination in my PST if it's not tuned 100% correctly.

[Solar]

John did you stitch the panes manually or did you use a program. I went the other way with less overlap. Mind you thats not for full disc shots, only for putting together 2 or 3 barlow shots.
Must confess I gave up on full disc mosaics.

[asimov]

I use Imerge to stitch them Ralph, & Imerge demands at least 40% overlap on all edges therefore I have to employ more Data sets/panes.

Easy as once you've got a routine established.

[Solar]

Thanks John,
I will have a crack if the sun ever comes out again up here.

[asimov]

Thought I'd try an Autostakkert 3X Drizzle. Heaps of work because I had to restack all 15 sets of data for the drizzle to be effective. Worth the effort...?