Author Topic: Combining mosaic frames aligned against a StarGenerator master image  (Read 3222 times)

Offline RobF2

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Help please.  I've been playing with a 3x2 mosaic of RGB images taken with my QHY9.  The StarAlignment Register/Union-Mosaic mode with Frame adaption is impressive, but no matter how I combine individual images or groups of images I seem to end up with some geometric distortion.  

Tonight I've successfully generated a master image with StarGenerator and performed StarAlignment (Register/Union - Seperate) (with Generate Masks) for 3 of these images.  I gather the combination of these images is ideally done using Pixemath (Max function?) but this is beyond my current meager understand of PM.  Could someone please explain how I could combine these registered images?

I suspect I might be able to crop down the registered images then to a union mosaic function, but I don't really want StarAlignment having the opportunity to distort my nicely registered frames.  Any assistance appreciated.  I should add at this point in time I'm only working with the Red filter images.

Rob
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Perhaps this thread will help you:

http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=2715.0

Have fun!

Sergio
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Thanks Sergio - I did plunder that thread and others, but I don't yet have the smarts to figure out how to do this bit in PixelMath:

"Then use PixelMath to generate the whole mosaic with a maximum operation between all registered frames"

I'd would greatly appreciate a guru showing a screenshot of the correct expression loaded up into PM pretty please.... :P
I'm pretty sure I'll end up going back to using DynamicAlignment too, but the learning curve has been steep the last few nights - I need another beer I suspect....!  >:D
In the meanwhile I guess I'll have to grow up and get my head around PM workflow.....
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Like this maybe?   ;)

« Last Edit: 2011 February 24 02:15:51 by RobF2 »
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