Gradient Merge Mosaic error message

[alcol]

Hi Folks help required.

I have been successful in the past with mosaics but I seem to have run into trouble with the 4 part HA Rosette nebula. I have cropped the 4 integrated images and ran through the mosaic process (in fact 2 or 3 times) all seems well until I put the images into the Gradient Merge Mosaic tool and it gives me a message "Error: Current image width differs from first image width.
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Checking the 4 image sizes I get 8445 x 6302  8445 x 6301  8446 x 6301  and 8445 x 6301  before starting the mosaic process all 4 images were identically cropped.

Anyone any idea where the process may have changed the image sizes? I followed Kayron's tutorial at http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorial-preparing-a-mosaic.html

Thanks

[John_Gill]

Hi,

GMM does not use any image sizes when creating the mosaic, so perhaps you are using the incorrect images that were not SA .... perhaps someone else can help.

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John

[alcol]

Hi John
These are the images that have the black areas in and contain the mosaic part and show its position in the overall mosaic. The measurements I have quoted are the size of these images, they are indicated in the process window when the images are opened.

Not sure why these very slight differences occur but I have found a way round it by opening the 2 images (in the 4 I quoted) and cropping 1 pixel off the 6302 measurement and 1 pixel off the 8446 measure. The 4 images are then the same size at 8445 x 6301 and are loaded into GMM and the mosaic is produced, no joins showing or pinched stars.

I have to say, it has worked without a problem in the past, so I'm not sure how 2 of the images gain an extra pixel, one in width and one in height.

[John_Gill]

That is a strange issue.  I have cropped overlapping images that are being used in a mosaic without encountering the "size" problem when doing the SA and GMM...

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John

[John_Gill]

mmh, I just got the same error, but found the error of my ways ...

Because you are doing a 4 panel (or bigger) mosaic, you would first create the "Template" file, doing a SA with "Register/Union Mosaic, then again using SA, with the "Template" as a reference you do a "Register/Match Images", this will create the 4 registered images.  These 4 new images are then processed with GMM.

I left out the "Register/Match Images" process and PI then complained about the differing sizes of each image.

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John

[alcol]

Hi John

pretty sure I followed the process, as per your note, to get to GMM

Regards
Alec