[raymo]

There are a few people out there that produce stunning images with DSLRs that are, to the uneducated eye at least, hard to separate from high quality CCD camera images.
Is how they do this the result of doing each step in the process of
capture and processing as close to perfectly as humanly possible? or
are there one or two discrete things that make these images possible, such as very dark sky sites, very long duration subs, huge total
exposure times etc: CCD cameras seem to be inherently sharper than any
DSLR, so how do these people produce images that rival CCD images?
Post capture sharpening?
raymo