interesting panaroma

[astroNikon]

well I was at a dark sky park the other week for a short time. The jetstream changed and brought clouds and rain for a few days and I had roughly an hour to shoot.
So I only had a change to use my camera and not my telescope before the clouds obscured the sky.

I have to figure out how to feather the images together so you don't see the seams too. I tried doing more photos for a more panoramic scene but with 4 photos you lose all the stars and the file size gets really big. This was a 57.2MB file before exporting it to 4 for TPF.

I tried the Auto Pano stitch feature but it wanted to take bottom photo #1 and put it on top at an angle. Add to that PSE12 doesn't have the manual control features of PSE11. So I just learned how to do layers (yeah).

 

[dcbear78]

Try Microsoft ICE. I find it to be the best stitching software around.

 

[astroNikon]

and since people like moon shots @ 2000mm from the 22nd
20150822_NightSky-04 First Qtr Illlumination 47% by Steve Sklar, on Flickr

 

[astroNikon]

that microsoft ICE program was easy to use and worked pretty good.
But I have to add 1 photo at a time otherwise the stitching doesn't work the way I want it to.

 

[Ron Evers]

You need to lock your exposure so it is the same in each frame.

 

[astroNikon]

You need to lock your exposure so it is the same in each frame.

I know, but it was changing quickly. Normally I take pics at 11pm to 2am.
But this was just after sunset (with clouds rolling in quickly). So even with the same camera setting for a long stream of photos, the sky changed. I made a lot of correction in LR and haven't finished yet. At least I figured out how to stitch some photos together.