Louis,
Hey, cheers! Good to hear from you. Hope you've been making use of those dark NT skies.
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Originally Posted by atalas
H,looking good dude!hope you get the color soon....should be a ripper.
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Marco,
Thanks, sir.
I guess having such a wide field with the FSQ makes it hard to go after small objects (my real love is long focal length), so, got to mix it up and do something interesting. I look forward to purchasing a long focal length scope in the future.
I remember you mentioned ages ago that you had started on a mosaic but were having equipment issues, as well.
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Originally Posted by marco
Great preview H  I am sure this project will turn out majestic, it takes a bit of b@lls to start "proper" imaging (as per your statement) with such a big project 
I have a project running on the same area with 12 panes that started last year but have to say that I am unfortunately at a dead point at the moment, properly merge so many panes (in particular colors) is a very hard task, so you have all my appreciation in this one
Clear skies
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Hi Greg,
You're part-way correct -- no need for Registar. I do everything in PixInsight.
I took 8 reference luminance frames that were just 10 seconds long each, after having built the mosaic template in TheSky6. These are what I run MaxIm DL's PinPoint LE plugin on each time I go to start imaging. Sync the scope, re-goto centre of solved image. If it now looks bang on (or, close enough to being bang on), I start imaging.
For this iteration of the image, I took Rogelio's advice and tried the GradientsMergeMosaic module. Absolutely fantastic.
Mosaics are such a time consuming process that make you want to tear your hair out. I've only got 1 hour of red bin2x2 on panel 1. I don't know when I'm going to finish this project.
Still, something to look forward to.
Cheers.
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Hi H,
What is your workflow here? Do the luminance first and then align the rgb colour panels onto the luminance using Registar one at a time?
If you have the luminance stitched nicely then the colour may go on a lot easier as its more the gradients that seem to cause grief in mosaics.
PixInsight came out with a gradients for mosaics module some time ago. That may be very valuable for this kind of work.
Greg.
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Thanks, all.
H