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

[asimov (John)]

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

Happy as!

PST/DMK

[h0ughy (David)]

nice - im not game for a pano yet so congratulations

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

Top job John
Now for the secret,!!!

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Excellent result, John

[Steffen]

Very nice! Fifteen panes

Cheers
Steffen.

[04Stefan07 (Stefan)]

Excellent photo mate!

[RB (Andrew)]

Wow, very nice indeed John.
Well done mate.

[asimov (John)]

Thanks guys.

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

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

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

[asimov (John)]

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

[ourkind (Carlos)]

Originally Posted by Matt Wastell

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

I so agree with that statement!

That's a Gem John! Well done!

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

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 (John)]

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 (Ralph Smith)]

Originally Posted by 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.

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 (John)]

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 (Ralph Smith)]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[asimov (John)]

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...?