Yes, I had to crop the jpeg a bit to try and reduce file size to 200kb. I opened with Microsoft Paint, then hit "resize" to about 70%. The full size jpeg I printed out on an A4 sheet of photo paper looks good to me, but I admit, the stars do look a little bloated!
How do you know, Silv, how much my star count was? Very interesting! Yes I think i played about with that percentage setting in DSS - I had problems a while ago when DSS got cranky and couldnt find enough stars.
I like your rendition, Karlzburg. I used that process module ATrous in PI which supposedly gets rid of noise, but maybe I will fiddle more with those sliders next time. I used what I read in a tutorial - ie layer1, 3.000, 0.62, iterations 2
layer 2, 2.000, 0.62, iterations 2
layer 3, 1.0, 0.62, iterations 2
layer 4, 0.500, 0.62, iterations 1
All a mystery to me what that all means
Thanks to you all!