Problem aligning Mosaic

[Nigel Ball]

I been trying to align two images all night one of IC1805 the second of IC1848

I include a screen shot with both images lined up manually and Auto STF on both. As you can see there isn't a great area but there are a few distinct star patterns in there. I tried following various scenarios I found on the web but the Console Messages indicated that no aligment was found after the sixth try.

I did have some success by creating a preview on each image where they overlap and then aligning the preiews but the alignment angle was way off.

I've been using Star Alignment with the Register/Union - Mosaic option on the linear images

Is there a manual method of aligning two images?

[Niall Saunders]

Nigel,

This may be a specific challenge for Juan to address - in my mind he has always been the MosaicMeister, and may be the only person in the PTeam lineup who can fully visualise what the alignement code can, or cannot, achieve.

I haven't played with mosaics at all in PI - one image at a time stretches my abilities sometimes

[Carlos Milovic]

Yes, the manual way to align is to use the DynamicAligment process. It is more flexible, and can be much more accurate, but requires more work. Try with it.

[Niall Saunders]

As Carlos suggests, try the DA process, and if you are struggling, let me know and I will upload a personal copy of my unfinished video tutorial on using the Dynamic Alignment tool (it has been 'work in progress' for almost a year now, and Harry has no fear that his position of SPIelberg will ever be threatened )