Thank, Patrick, that's very cool! -- JB --- On Thu, 11/18/10, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] M-45 To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 3:37 AM Hi Joe,
On 10 Nov 2010, at 20:59, Joe Bauman wrote:
Hi Patrick, I don't dare go too deep with this one because I think that will really overexpose the stars and cause flaring; so I will take a lot of short exposures and stack them. At least that's my theory! Also I intend to try a mosaic. Best wishes, Joe
I just learned about software the comes with TheSky that makes designing and shooting mosaics very easy. Since you use TheSky and said you want to try mosaics I thought I'd share it with you (and anyone else here who uses TheSky).
It's called Data Wizard. You open it by going to TheSky | Data | Data Wizard.
Information on it here: http://www.bisque.com/tom/datawizard/datawizard.asp
I used it this evening between clouds to shoot this test mosaic of M-45 using 35 two second exposures.
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/m45-2010nov18.jpg
Like I said, design and shooting were easy. Making all those blankety-blank seams blend together is now the hard part (still working on that). But there's some software at http://www.panoramafactory.com I'm thinking about buying that might solve that.
And it's even easier if you use Orchestrate (single piece of software that controls the mount, camera and filter wheel). Looks like it's a free download assuming you've registered your copy of TheSky: http://www.bisque.com/sc/media/p/27929.aspx
Yeah, I know, all of this coming from "Mr. take data, don't do pretty pictures". :)
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