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I love making panoramas. Autostitch is very good. I use a program called The Panorama Factory I actually paid for some years ago that also does an excellent job.
The secret of getting good panoramas is to use a stable stand for the camera that allows swivelling through 360 degrees. Make sure there is nothing in the foreground that can cause double images and allow plenty of overlap. It can often be advantgeous to use the camera in portrait mode to increase vertical resolution. Wide angle lenses work better also.
I make panoramas principally for use in stellarium. This requires a lot of processing of the basic 360 degree panoramas to create an alpha layer with the sky made transparent then cutting it into panels to allow very high resolution. My panoramas usually are about 15000 pixels wide and clipped to 1024 pixels high.
Tom Bisque from Software Bisque helped me with the first one and he put it on the web page. They are too big to display on this page. The stellarium version I made much later can be downloaded from the Stellarium.org site.
Barry
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