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Old 29-11-2017, 04:06 PM
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Fabian Neyer Star Removal Method for PI

Adam Block has been working on a tutorial for star removal in PixInsight using a method from Fabian Neyer:

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For the past few years Fabian Neyer has been demonstrating a technique of star removal that is based on practices that professionals use. He cites this paper of showing the intragalactic glow between members of the virgo cluster:

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.../720/1/569/pdf
Adam's first video is here: https://youtu.be/1rEBbZhsDIU

There's a second video coming in the next day or so.

The process doesn't look any less painful and time consuming that what I do at present, but it does a much better job of removing star halos and the wings of star PSFs to give a pure starless result.

Cheers,
Rick.
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