After capturing a lot of imagery with comet C/2023 A3, i'm struggling to stack those images because of imperfect registration. This comet has been standing very low in the east during dawn.
The subs i want to stack were shot with a Sony a7iii and a 135 mm lens, mounted on a star tracker. Nearly all include the horizon, which is ~1.5° below the point of observation. Looking a loong way through atmosphere. There is a large area of ~undistorted star field in the images, which can be registered. Towards horizon, distortion increases and becomes very large. Since the images are tracked and stars were rising, the distorted area is different in different subs. And on top of that, dawn has begun and there are large and changing gradients in the sky.
I've been trying to tweak Image Registration parameters, and also tried repeated registering, but none of that worked so far. I think the registration model is important, as well as the method of interpolation. But im not 100% sure if the stars in the brighter image areas have been detected at all.
Ive been trying to create an undistorted artificial reference. But so far ive been failing to plate solve one of the subs. So, at the moment i ran out of ideas.
The subs i want to stack were shot with a Sony a7iii and a 135 mm lens, mounted on a star tracker. Nearly all include the horizon, which is ~1.5° below the point of observation. Looking a loong way through atmosphere. There is a large area of ~undistorted star field in the images, which can be registered. Towards horizon, distortion increases and becomes very large. Since the images are tracked and stars were rising, the distorted area is different in different subs. And on top of that, dawn has begun and there are large and changing gradients in the sky.
I've been trying to tweak Image Registration parameters, and also tried repeated registering, but none of that worked so far. I think the registration model is important, as well as the method of interpolation. But im not 100% sure if the stars in the brighter image areas have been detected at all.
Ive been trying to create an undistorted artificial reference. But so far ive been failing to plate solve one of the subs. So, at the moment i ran out of ideas.
