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Update on the 2.0.0 release & the full manual
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I am having trouble with a OSC 3-panel integration of the Heart nebula. Process flow to date:
- Integrated each panel separately ... they look good - Loaded the 3 panels as lights - Performed Mosaic registration - Performed Normalization - Integrated the 3 panels
The result is as shown: a very noticeable difference in backgrounds between the 3 panels (shot across 2 nights).
Is there a way to fix this? Should I try to register, normalize and integrate all of the lights together?
OK, I may have fixed it. I did the above process again, but with the following changes:
- on Integration, changed Multi band blending to 15%, and set LNC from OFF to 6th degree, 3 iterations (I had LNC off before because I thought the scale of LNC was much smaller than panel size)
Which of these was the magic bullet, or both ? I think it is vastly improved but not quite perfect, are there other settings which could improve it? Â
Thanks, much appreciated! If interested, here is what I ended up with after a sort of HOO processing: (abut 72 minutes of light per panel, 130mm refractor)
Thanks, much appreciated! If interested, here is what I ended up with after a sort of HOO processing: (abut 72 minutes of light per panel, 130mm refractor)
Indeed, like Patrick @artaios indicates there are 3 settings that control how well the images blend.
1) normalize, advanced mode will work better then regular mode in this case for sure !
2) Multi-Band Blending is the main blend technique, so very critical to smooth difference in illumination between the panels. Setting MBB even to a higher % can result in more improvements in some cases.
3) Local Normalization Correction, is responsible to try to remove different gradients between the mosaic panels, so also adds to the mix to improve things.
