BloodyRegistar

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

This has got to be the most user unfriendly program of all time. Well, maybe there are worse ones out there, but compared to a lot of astro software it is pretty unintuitive. I have a great luminosity mosaic fluked though Registar--probably couldn't reproduce it, but now I am trying to align the colour data to the luminance , but nothing works. The help file is totally useless.

[jase (Jason)]

OK Geoff. So if you've got the luminance stitched ok, you're nearly there. Registar is not logical at times. Given where you are at, why not use the luminance as the reference for the colour data?

Under the Registar Groups Manager window, purge everything from the active groups, this will place them into the archived groups - delete them from there as well. Make sure there's no reference groups in either.

Open up the luminance that you've stitch together. If this is still in PSD format or similar, flatten it before hand. With the luminance open, locate the stars (if this hasn't already been done before). Then open up the colour data that you will register against the luminance (reference image). Start registering each colour panel against the luminance.

When done, save each of the registered colour panels, then open them up in photoshop. Stretch and stitch them together. They'll align perfectly assuming your luminance is a good match. With the colour panels stitched you can introduce the luminance. The colour and luminance will align to produce and LRGB style image.

Hope this makes sense. Don't try to re-register against existing registration groups. You're bound to end up in trouble. Clear them out before doing the above.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by ghsmith45

This has got to be the most user unfriendly program of all time. Well, maybe there are worse ones out there, but compared to a lot of astro software it is pretty unintuitive. I have a great luminosity mosaic fluked though Registar--probably couldn't reproduce it, but now I am trying to align the colour data to the luminance , but nothing works. The help file is totally useless.

Mate we've done heaps of tuts on this one. You should be flying by now Blank the registar.ini file restart the software and load first the sub you want to register all the others to then select the directory containing the subs you want to register and the directory you want to save the registered subs in. Easy.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Thanks Jase. And Marc, I'll speak to you about this at Wednesday's meeting.
Geoff

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by ghsmith45

Thanks Jase. And Marc, I'll speak to you about this at Wednesday's meeting.
Geoff

That's cool, bring your files on a stick or your laptop. We'll do it quickly on the side.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

I've also found that Maxim has a nice easy to use mosaic feature and it does a good job of aligning and blending. The blending is very good and saves a lot of hassle. The easiest way to use it seems to be to make a luminance and a color mosaic separately and then align the two using Registar (or any other alignment utility) and then move into Photoshop.
Geoff

[multiweb (Marc)]

If you have a stitched quality Lum you've won half the battle because you can register all subsequent colors to that Lum. PS does auto-blending so the rest is a no brainer. I've noticed Maxim has a cool tool to offset and shoot mosaic during data acquisition too.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by multiweb;

I've noticed Maxim has a cool tool to offset and shoot mosaic during data acquisition too.

Yes, this is really something I keep meaning to try.
Geoff