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Thanks for the comments gents - unfortunately the sky was far from clear. I hope to repeat this as the nights get colder and drier.
I chose the 50mm lens for several reasons including less distortion at the edges of the frames. I basically worked along the horizon and shot a pano as I normally do using a 50%overlap, then swung back to the start, moved the camera up a bit and snapped another row. I repeated this for 4 rows. There was a lot of overlap in an attempt to avoid missing a bit of sky. I'm sure it could have been completed in 20 frames, rather than 42. 20-30mins to take the images.
Processing involved clicking on Photomerge in PS, selecting all the files and hitting go. I was amazed when the completed image was spat out. I fiddled with the setting and settled on this.
Agreed, it needs a lot more processing, but I'm not sure it's worth spending too much time on as you can't make chicken salad out of chicken sh...
I'll try a gradient removal in PixInsight on Wednesday. Unfortunately work interfered with processing today - haven't even touched the CCD data, other than to backup the laptop!
DT
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