Thanks to +Mike Berenson for talking about this in his last post.. I must play with this software from Microsoft
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ice/
ICE – Image Composite Editor
Check out the short video – it seems very impressive for the fact its free….
I've been using PTGui for a little while now. When a friend recently suggested this one, I thought I'd give it a try. I'd already invested in PTGui and this one is obviously free so it's easy to try. I found it to work better on my most recent milky way image than PTGui which impressed me. It didn't do better with all the ones I tested, but for someone who's just starting with panos, I'd definitely suggest this one first as the cost is nice. It just didn't work with some of the images I threw at it and that's where I like having both.
Hrmm have to check this out in abit. Thanks for the share
I use ICE for most of my panos (which really aren't that many), and I find that it does a great job, especially compared to most of the other freeware out there.
I posted several that I put together back in June of the Painted Hills in Oregon, and earlier in the year I put together this post ( https://plus.google.com/113813534502443050477/posts/8cskumEyPkP ) comparing ICE and Hugin.