Thanks for watching, everyone! Here are links to the Mosaic Planning and Processing videos: Mosaic Planning: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/esigqbNhlpualo0.html Mosaic Processing (Pixinsight): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hZd8ZsSX1dyUqIk.html

Nick, I am in the process of actually doing this: a 2x2 mosaic as my starter - there's nothing like diving in to learn to swim! Thanks again for your inspiring video. In this exercise I got to thinking about this tool and have raised my ideas with ZWO who have responded that they will consider them. It's this: if you are photographing a southern target, the order of the panes that the tool provides is northern row, left to right, then southern row, left to right. This means that the western panes are done after the eastern ones in each row. It also means that the last frame(s) are shot late in the a.p. session and thus are in danger of encountering a terrestrial obstruction (like your horizon), while the eastern ones still have an hour or two of clear sky. I would like to see a facility that would allow me to alter the order of the frames, at least to do the western ones first. In fact, in a 2x2 matrix, I would choose SW, NW, then SE and NE as my order. Additionally, if one had some problems with clouds affecting a pane or two one night, then I would like to be able to redo the sequence but with those affected panes first when I can be reasonably sure I would be cloud-free. Obviously, the pane numbering sequence would remain the same so that you know which is which at a glance. Well, that's my musings for what they are worth. I'd like to hear others' thoughts.

You made it so simple Nick, thank you

Another great video Nick! Very helpful fast track for me as I've yet to test drive the new feature. I like labeling scheme in plan mode vs Telescopius.

As always Nick, you are among the top of all professional videos available for astrophotography. Thanks for everything you do!

Thank you Nick. Your tutorials are always most helpful and always timely. Do keep us abreast of ASIAIR’s many features.

Thank you Nick! I’ve got to try this.

The ASI Air is really evolving! With this mosaic feature getting better, might start attracting NINA users 🙂 Thanks for the video!

I am learning with you! I will use it. Thank you!

I suggest a video on how to assemble the mosaic in pixinsight. Thanks

Thanks a lot!!!

Regarding overlap, I came from Landscape photography before I dived into the rabbit hole of Astro. When doing a landscape panorama, the minimum overlap between images is 25%.

thank you - great video.

Nice video, can’t wait to see more features of v2.0. How about rotation for the next one. Do you know if ZWO will finally produce and sell a field rotator, instead of rotating our cameras manually?

Thanks for a very helpful video. I am interested in an Any Sky PA test. Before V2, it worked perfectly for me. Now it the RA and DEC drifts during PA. Without touching the mount bolts, the position of the scope drifts continuously making PA impossible. I have been in touch with the developers with not satisfactory results. I understand that this feature is still in experimental mode, but it worked beautifully before V2. I love this feature-I am in the Southern Hemisphere with no view of the south celestial pole at all due to trees. HEQ5 pro, ZWO 294MC pro, ZWO guiding. Best regards, Gordon

Thanks to you Nick I got out last night and imaged my first mosaic (well, sort of 😢). Clouds killed my 3rd and 4th pane of a 2x2 mosaic. If you can answer a few questions I’d be most grateful. 1.) since most, but not all frames were clouded over in two of the quadrants, the next time I image should I compensate for the bad quadrants by adding extra subs in those quadrants? 2.) when I do get out tonight, will ASAAIR Sky Atlas frame image exactly the same (nothing in my image train has changed). Any suggestions for adding multi-night additions to my subs? Can’t tell you how much I appreciate your channel and your responsiveness.

Thanks for such a great video! how did you figure this out? awesome! does ZWO put any kind of documentation when they come out with new features as this one? Anyway, looking forward to using this mosaic on the seagull neb. soon. Clear Skies!

This saved my bacon, thanks! Question, once you create a mosaic plan, how do you save it? I inadvertently wiped it out and it was a pin to recreate since I had manually centered the mosaic on my target (I was able to use previous nights shots to reposition it and save as a sequence within a plan, but it only worked because I shot the same mosaic the night before)

Hey Nick. Thanks for your videos they are extremely helpful. However, I am having an issue. I make a plan, have my panels all set up and add it to my plan. However If I am trying to shoot a mosiac over a few weeks, when I go into my plan, all my panels have shifted around?

help request; my first attempt at a mosiac stalled last night. your video helped me advance forward.. thank you ! i ran into a wall after the plan completed. i assumed i would find a final mosiac image when the plan completed. i did not. what happens with the images when the plan completes ?

question on guiding. When planning for multiple planes, does ASIair take into account guiding on different stars?

I tried out the Mosaic feature on ASIAir with 4 frames and 12 x 300 second images of each frame. I lost about 6 images from the 1srt frame due to clouds but the rest look great. My next step is to stack the mosaic images. Do I need to stack each of the 4 frames individually and align them manually in Photoshop? I tried to see if ASIStudio Stacking feature has ability to align all 4 frames. It came up with errors when I tried to stack all of them together. So I am guessing that I need to stack each frame of images individually. I also had a meridian flip occur in the middle of one of the frames, but I think ASIStudio Stacking will recognize the different orientation and still stack them correctly.

In plan mode there doesn’t seem to be any way to rotate the mosaic for better framing, before adding to the current plan - am I missing something? I noticed, if you switch to preview, that option is available, but then there is no way to add the rotated mosaic to a plan.

Enjoyed the video. Couple of questions. In preview mode the rotate icon is available but not in plan mode. Is there a way to rotate a mosaic plan? Next, when I creat a mosaic of pelican Nebula, if I get too close to ngc7000 but not in it, it changes the name to ngc7000 vs what’s really in the pane.

I tried this last night for the E/W Veil nebula. Got everything setup for a simple 1x2 on my ASI 533MCPro. But when I hit the start button in plan mode, the button appeared to change to pause button, but it never started shooting. Wondered what I’m missing. There was no delayed start in the plan but after waiting about 10-12 mins, it still said 0/45 pics taken in the sequence. Any thoughts anyone?

I am missing something in your video. How do you get the plan from preview to plan mode?? More important than that, I can rotate a frame in preview mode and cannot find anyway to transfer the rotated mosaic from the preview to the plan. I would sure appreciate an answer to this if it is possible.

I am interested in doing some mosaics of the moon. But that used video and stacking. Is this kind of mosaic capability part of ASIAIR?

I don't have the ability to rotate the mosaic in plan mode. I have it in preview, but that doesn't carry over to plan.

How does rotate work with this?

Any advice for photographing a galaxy to prevent blowing out the central core. Let's say a 2x1 mosaic, where the central core will be photographed twice while the outer areas will be each photographed less, wouldn't the core be way brighter than the outer fringes of the galaxy? Thanks for making great videos on the Asi Air.

You skipped the part where you can set the details for one pane and then copy it over to the other panes. There is a little plus icon at the top right in the details screen. It will give you the option to copy it to all other targets or only the subsequent ones.

ZWO just keeps on improving that little red box... I have zero need for one, but I keep looking at them thinking I might pick one up... you know... because why not? LOL

Why does my mosaic mode in plan mode not have a rotation feature ?

curious - I am putting a HUGE project in - if I bring it over from Telescopus when I import the text file over - when I put the length and number of exposures in - it applies this across the entire plan. When I do this in ASIAIR Plus - I have to alter these for each frame - this is really time consuming if you are making a huge exposure covering a vast swath of space - the setup will take some real time. And you can not make these edits when the system is capturing. Am I missing something here? Is there a way having the ASIAIR set up the Mosaic's exposure length and number of exposures?

Nick, guess I was lucky last night with managing to get the mosaic to work. Tonight, for the life of me, I couldn’t get it to work. I was able to get my four panel mosaic into plan, but I kept getting a “no target selected” notice. Do you need to set up the plan before going into SkyAtlas? Would it be possible for you to give specific instructions about getting the panes into plan, then what? Do you detail each panel? What about the plan panel? Any suggestions as to how to proceed would be most appreciated. I just wasted a beautiful clear night trying to find the right sequence. Hope I’m not asking too much.

Nick, you have the gift of making a puzzling issue clear, to the point of wanting to try out your way. I look forward to seeing more of your videos. You asked for suggestions: What is the point of Live Stacking in ASiair 2.0? I can see it might be useful in situations where a nebula is faint, and it might show that you are on the right track with your exposures and framing. However, is it more than that? Also, I haven't seen a good comparison of Live Stacking vs standard integration: most videos seem to have Live Stacking examples only a fraction of the total exposure of the standard integration example. Also #2, in Live Stacking do you get the individual frames stored as well as the stacked image? And finally, does Live Stacking require Dark & Flat masters to give a decent result? Unfortunately, I can't check these issues out just yet as my ASiair is undergoing a warranty claim - 6 weeks turnaround, I'm told. {Groan!}

I'm waiting for my asiair mini and wondering if you can plan your mosaics ahead of time or if you can only set up what you're shooting at that time.