Re: [APML] Milky Way Mosaic

[Jerry Lodriguss <lists4@astropix.com>]

Hi Wade,

Very excellent. The colors are just outstanding.

If you feel like it, you could try this new program out there called 
Autostitch at:

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

I put together a nighttime mosaic panorama at a Phillies game and it worked 
amazingly well.  I haven't tried it yet on an astro mosaic though.

Here's what makes it amazing... it blends the seams for tone and color and 
it makes it seamless.  It also corrects for distortion, at least in a 
daytime scene, and makes the verticals vertical (I have no idea how it does 
this, or what it would do to an image without vertical lines such as a 
starfield).

And, it does all of this automatically. You just tell it the pictures you 
want to put together, and it does the rest.  It works much much better than 
Photoshop's panoramic mosaic tool.

Jerry



At 01:41 AM 7/30/2005, you wrote:
>To all,
>
>Although it's not quite complete (i.e. I haven't removed the obvious
>area where they overlap).  At present, this is beyond my skill;
>however, I will over the next week or so try to make their overlap
>disappear.  Out of all my new images, this one and the Rho Ophiuchi
>Region are my favorite.  It's just unbelievable the amount of detail
>in this composite.  There's lots of extremely faint nebulosity (e.g.
>the faint nebula around Zeta Ophiuchi).
>
>http://tinyurl.com/d4ckh
>
>Wade
>
>
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