Taking an image mosaic - how?

I would like to take a series of images of the sky in the form of a
mosaic. No gaps between the images but with only a small overlap.

Somewhere recently I saw some software that enabled the observers to
put in the details of their set up and the area to be covered and the
software calculated how best to take the mosaic.

Any ideas of where I can find out the best way of taking these images?

Many thanks

Martin,

One of the best ways of doing this would be to use the Sky and its
mosaic feature. It allows you to specifiy the area of the CCD
chip/photo and the % overlap. It then drives the scope to the right
spot and allows you to take an image and then move on.. A totally
automated mosaic is a bit more difficult but can be done by the
Sky/CCDSoft/Ochestrate.

Hi,

I would like to take a series of images of the sky in the form of a
mosaic. No gaps between the images but with only a small overlap.

Have a lok at Panoramatools:
http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~dersch/
AFAIK, there are also numerous GUI frontends based on this software.
Bye and HTH,

Jan


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