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Posted by: djellison Mar 5 2005, 11:22 PM

A little something I put together whilst waiting for the Australian Grand Prix - this is two sections ( a 4x4 and a 4x3 ) of the full Panorama taken at Larrys Leap. I'm hoping to be able to do the section looking into Ten.Val next week.

Doug

Posted by: erwan Mar 6 2005, 01:12 AM

Can JPL boys stitch better?

Posted by: Nix Mar 6 2005, 01:57 AM

Not better I think, nope. A very pleasing mosaic djellison!
Great work!

Posted by: Pando Mar 6 2005, 02:04 AM

Posted by: djellison Mar 6 2005, 04:54 AM

Oh yeah - it's L2 + L5 only as well

Doug

Posted by: aldo12xu Mar 24 2005, 05:27 PM

Hi Doug,

I remember your saying that you use PTGui to create your panoramas. I downloaded the program last night and tried to creat a 2 x 2 mosaic (2 rows, 2 frames per row). Unfortunately, the resulting mosaic cut off the top half and right half of the original images.

Can you tell me what settings I should use for the pancam and navcam photos? That is, what focal length and lens size should I indicate. Do I have to set the dimensions of the final panorama?

Thanks in advance,
Aldo.

Posted by: Nix Mar 24 2005, 06:07 PM

I know pancam has an effective focal length of 38 mm and a FOV of 16.8°. Somewhere else I read 16.6° so I'm not exactly sure but I use 16.8 most of the time. Navcam is 45°.
You should see the Pancam user guide, available via the Cornell site.

Posted by: aldo12xu Mar 24 2005, 07:13 PM

Thanks, NIX......can't wait for your website updates!!

Posted by: Tman Mar 24 2005, 07:26 PM

I know pancam has an effective focal length of 38 mm and a FOV of 16.8°. Somewhere else I read 16.6° so I'm not exactly sure but I use 16.8 most of the time. Navcam is 45°.
You should see the Pancam user guide, available via the Cornell site.

Posted by: djellison Mar 24 2005, 07:59 PM

Hi Doug,

I remember your saying that you use PTGui to create your panoramas.  I downloaded the program last night and tried to creat a 2 x 2 mosaic (2 rows, 2 frames per row).  Unfortunately, the resulting mosaic cut off the top half and right half of the original images. 

Can you tell me what settings I should use for the pancam and navcam photos?  That is, what focal length and lens size should I indicate.  Do I have to set the dimensions of the final panorama?

Thanks in advance,
Aldo.

Posted by: Nix Mar 24 2005, 08:39 PM

Cornell_one of the official sources for the info

http://www.athena.cornell.edu/

http://www.athena.cornell.edu/the_mission/ins_pancam.html

http://www.athena.cornell.edu/pdf/tb_pancam.pdf

The last link is a small document compared to the Mer/Pancam data processing user's guide but the necessary info is there.

Posted by: Tman Mar 24 2005, 08:58 PM

Oh that way I misunderstood one or two posts above. I already thought NASA/JPL etc. use PTGui too for their unequaled Mars panos.

I've already known this links, anyhow thank you.

Posted by: wyogold Mar 24 2005, 09:56 PM

wow doug. It looks like your 2 image color is working nicely.

I am amazed at how you get the colors to match so well. Time to read more on photoshop.

Someday mabey i'll get close to dougs level of mastery but for now I am but a lowely aprentice. (that spells bad and dosent have a spell check on his computer)

scott