Ok. It's not really finished.
The resulting panorama is not satisfactory. Probably
that's why no one commented; didn't want to criticize.
Anyway I decided to start all
over again after all.
But this time I thought I'd use
the original jpegs instead of the pngs. I had gone into
Photoshop and created the pngs thinking that would be
better. But I now think when I did that, I changed the
file size and ended up with much worse resolution than the
jpgs even though jpeg is a lossy format. Tell me what you
think of that, please.
So I started Hugin, chose File
-> New, and loaded the 48 jpgs. Then i worked on
control points. I selected the images two at a time,
choosing images that obviously had overlaps, like 0_1.JPG
and 30_1.JPG; 0_1.JPG and 330_1.JPG; 0_1.JPG and 0_2.jpg,
etc. (From now on I'll leave off the .JPG)
I then opened 0_1 in both the
left and right side and tried to add horizontal and
vertical CPs. After a lot of time, and eventually
selecting eight images at a time rather than just two, I
had several thousand CPs. I noticed that there was no
Optimizer tab. Didn't know where it had gone.
Anyway, when I finally tried to
use the stitcher, I got some strange error messages that I
didn't understand. Bottom line, no panorama resulted.
So I decided to JUST create a
panorama with the top row of images: 0_1, 30_1, 60_1,
90_1, ... 330_1. That wouldn't get me the panorama that I
needed for SkySafari, but maybe I'd figure out what I was
doing wrong. That failed too. For reasons that I do not
understand when I tried to create CPs for 120_1 and 150_1,
Hugin said it couldn't find any. So I went in and
manually found, and created several.
This is getting too long. I'm
afraid no one will reaqd this and respond, so let me cut
to the chase.
I am attaching the error log
file, Top Level_3.log. Maybe someone can tell me what I
did wrong.
I am also attaching (hopefully
in a manner Claudio recommended) those 12 JPG files. If
someone (Claudio?) is willing to try to create a panorama
with those 12 files and tell me what happens, I'll
appreciate it.
