Mosaic Mode, Explained - smart-underworld/seestar_alp GitHub Wiki

Here are a few notes on how to properly setup a mosaic:

• Panel Overlap guideline

  • 20% in EQ mode
  • 45%-55% in Alt-AZ mode

• selected panels:

  • if you want to capture only a subset of the full set of panels of a mosaic
  • example: 23;12;21 will only capture panels 12, 21 an 23 - in this order

• split mosaic across multiple Seestars:

  • in Federation mode, you can specify how the panels of size m are captured with the Seestar array of size n:
    • split: divide evenly how the set of panels are captured by each Seestar: roughly m / n panels per Seestar
    • not split: each Seestar will capture each and every panel of the mosaic

• total session time:

  • this is the capture time for the mosaic if all the panels were to be captured
  • this determines the capture time for each panel by the formular : <capture_time> = <total session time> / <number of panels of a mosaic>
  • if selected_panels are specified, then run time can be estimated to be <capture_time> * <num_selected_panels>

• max number of Seestars used:

  • in the very near future, a new parameter will be exposed to specify the maximum number of Seestars out of a federation array to be used to service a mosaic