[g__day (Matthew)]

Guys,

A simple question on preferred processing treatment. Attached is a single 900 second shot of NGC 2070 on a Canon 400D which has had the IR filter replaced (unit Eric did a while ago).

I've done a little bit of levels and curves and saturation with this - but I wonder what is the best way to get rid of the little red (heat?) flecks - that are brighter than the underlying nebulae I am trying to boost?

Is there a an effective way to grab these flecks somehow and either mask them out or blur them out? I've tried to do a colour select and either level or Gassian blur them out - but it didn't work - guess I didn't grab them successfully.

Many thanks,

Matthew

PS

Normally I stack everything through DSS with matching Dark, flat whites/darks, and BIAS shots. But for this example this frame has none of that treatment.