Joining pictures

Hi all,

I've just got back from the AAO in Australia and from a trip to Mauna Kea
and was lucky enough to be given a private tours of some of the
observatories including Gemini North.

I took some pictures and wondered what you guys use to join them together as
the scopes were far too big to get in one shot and I don't have a fish eye
lens so I took several over a wide area with a view to joining them together
at a later stage

Is Photoshop the way to do it? layers or something?

Thanks in advance

Andy

"Andy G" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I've just got back from the AAO in Australia and from a trip to Mauna Kea
and was lucky enough to be given a private tours of some of the
observatories including Gemini North.

I took some pictures and wondered what you guys use to join them together
as the scopes were far too big to get in one shot and I don't have a fish
eye lens so I took several over a wide area with a view to joining them
together at a later stage

Is Photoshop the way to do it? layers or something?

Thanks in advance

Andy

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Many Thanks



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"Andy G" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I've just got back from the AAO in Australia and from a trip to Mauna Kea
and was lucky enough to be given a private tours of some of the
observatories including Gemini North.

I took some pictures and wondered what you guys use to join them together
as the scopes were far too big to get in one shot and I don't have a fish
eye lens so I took several over a wide area with a view to joining them
together at a later stage

Is Photoshop the way to do it? layers or something?

Thanks in advance

Andy

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Thanks for that

it did a good job on the Gemini pics.

had a great time whilst away, went to see AAO, Parkes, GBR Observatory,
Sydney
Observatory first then got tours of Keck 1, OoH 88" and Gemini to name a
few.

Cheer for the link

Andy


"Andy G" wrote in message
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Many Thanks



"SJP" wrote in message
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"Andy G" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I've just got back from the AAO in Australia and from a trip to Mauna
Kea and was lucky enough to be given a private tours of some of the
observatories including Gemini North.

I took some pictures and wondered what you guys use to join them
together as the scopes were far too big to get in one shot and I don't
have a fish eye lens so I took several over a wide area with a view to
joining them together at a later stage

Is Photoshop the way to do it? layers or something?

Thanks in advance

Andy

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

In message , Andy G
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joining them together
at a later stage
Andy
If you are using a digital camera take a look at your software disc.It
may hold an appropriate stitching program, possibly described as
"panoramic".
My pack included this and other goodies which are not mentioned in the
manual.
--
John

Thanks John,

It was an oldish (4 years old) camera and I think the CD is in the loft
somewhere.

The other program SJP said sorted it though.

Roll on a digital SLR! I could have taken so many wonderful pictures. As it
is I have about 4000 from this trip alone!

cheers for your help

Andy
Mr Andrew R Green B.Sc(Hons) FRAS.


"John" wrote in message
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In message , Andy G
writes

joining them together
at a later stage
Andy
If you are using a digital camera take a look at your software disc.It may
hold an appropriate stitching program, possibly described as "panoramic".
My pack included this and other goodies which are not mentioned in the
manual.
--
John

"Andy G" wrote in message
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Thanks John,

It was an oldish (4 years old) camera and I think the CD is in the loft
somewhere.

The other program SJP said sorted it though.

Roll on a digital SLR! I could have taken so many wonderful pictures. As
it is I have about 4000 from this trip alone!


Sounds good.
Have a look out for recent PC magazine disks that might have Serif's
Panorama Plua 1 on as a freebie. This is one of the software packages that
has licenced the original autostitch software - not as much control as with
the download, but a nicer interface.

look back over the last 5 months or so/.

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:19:54 +0100, "OG"
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"Andy G" wrote in message
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Thanks John,

It was an oldish (4 years old) camera and I think the CD is in the loft
somewhere.

The other program SJP said sorted it though.

Roll on a digital SLR! I could have taken so many wonderful pictures. As
it is I have about 4000 from this trip alone!


Sounds good.
Have a look out for recent PC magazine disks that might have Serif's
Panorama Plua 1 on as a freebie. This is one of the software packages that
has licenced the original autostitch software - not as much control as with
the download, but a nicer interface.

look back over the last 5 months or so/.

It's on the next Sky at Night (April I think) coverdisc too I believe.
--
Pete
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk

"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:19:54 +0100, "OG"
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Have a look out for recent PC magazine disks that might have Serif's
Panorama Plua 1 on as a freebie. This is one of the software packages that
has licenced the original autostitch software - not as much control as
with
the download, but a nicer interface.

look back over the last 5 months or so/.

It's on the next Sky at Night (April I think) coverdisc too I believe.

I'd recommend it to anyone with a digital camera. The Autostitch software
behind Panorama Plus can stitch together images in 2 dimensions, so you're
not limited to going from left to right as with some panorama programs.

Here's an example just to show what I mean -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24874058@N00/436724465/ which is composed from
11 images

The benefit of using the Serif version rather than the free download of
autostitch is that the latter generally comes as a time-limited package, so
you can't just install it on a machine and forget about it. If you're
working away from an internet connection the free Serif version would be
preferable.

OG