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Old 07-07-2020, 10:53 AM
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Do you have an automated rotator? I would have to look back at my SGP install (I use Voyager now which has a more powerful mosaic tool) but the SGP mosaic planner should show you the panel orientation will get and provide a rotation angle that you manually rotate the camera to (Using plate solving fr feedback) or use to drive an automated rotator.

I would say you also need to increase the overlap percentage between frames to make it consistent, being an image of Carina and near the pole you might want about 20% as near the pole the SGP mosaic planner really falls down, it does not account for the effective change of camera angle as you mover around near the pole and you can end up with holes ore strangely shaped mosaics very easily. That is where the Voyager planner shines, you can set it up to calculate and display how the panels will come out with a fixed camera angle, or to line them up visually square like the SGP planner does and calculate a camera angle for each frame to make the result match the plan.

You could rescue that one a fair bit by plonking another frame right in the middle to fill the hole.
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