We will align our seperate mosaic panels to a generated image of stars. This often produces the best final result for a mosaic that has more than two frames.

Do use this, you will need to know the size of the overall mosaic and the coordinates of the center point.

Catalog Star Generator Script

Launch the catalog star generator script, which is located under Script – Render – CatalogStarGenerator.

Image Plate Solver
Image Plate Solver
Catalog Star Generator
Catalog Star Generator

To generate the catalog of stars, we use the information we obtained from the image plate solver script. This will include the Right Ascension, Declination, Rotation, and Image Resolution.

We can also add the Dimensions of the image based on our calculations we obtained from the Image Annotation script.

If the magnitude of stars is too high, the image might fail to generate. In that case, lower it until the catalog generates.

Star Catalog

Once the process completes, you should have a new image containing stars

Catalog of Stars
Catalog of Stars

Save this file as we will use it in the next step to align our panels to the star catalog.