UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred  after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Â Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
I first became interested in mosaics after imaging portions of the Cygnus SNR separately, namely the Eastern and Western Veils. I decided to try to capture them and the area between them in a 2x2 mosaic that included Pickerings Triangle in 2022. This was also when I first discovered and tested out APP. I was able to capture 50 minutes on each panel and got a respectable (although not really good) result combining the panels with APP and post-processing with Star Tools.
I considered going after more data the following year, but expanded my scope to a 2x4 panel mosaic that also attempts to capture some of the fainter details North of the area I got in 2022. During three sessions over last year and this, I was able to get about 50 minutes worth of time on these 8 panels and produced a similar result as to where I have gotten with the 2x2 data from 2022. I find it difficult to collect large amounts of time on target as there a very few good nights available to me and spreading that time over 8 panels is challenging.
In the last week or so I have been wondering whether I can use the overlapping data I collected in 2022 by combining the 2x2 and 2x4 integrated mosaics into a new mosaic. If this is a reasonable thing to do I could concentrate on collecting data on just the northern 4 panels to quickly get to about 2 hours of time per panel and see if that improve my end result. This is a screenshot of what the combined 2x2 and 2x4 mosaics looks like:
I have outlined the original 2x2 data to try and make this clearer. I will process the combined data in StarTools and see whether the overlapping portions look better.
If this is a reasonable approach I am wondering (and will do further tests) whether I should use then 2x2 and 2x4 mosaics as my source, or if I get a better result by doing a single mosaic of all twelve individual panels into an end result. I did take one pass at this option, but the result was rather bland color-wise as I had used LNC when integrating the individual panels of the 2x4 data. I have since reintegrated each ot the panels with no LNC and the result is more vibrant. That is the overlapped mosaic I am running through StarTools right now.
Any thoughts, questions or comments are appreciated.
Bob
You can, just load the masters as lights and register as a mosaic again. I've done this a few times.
