I think this is the first starless M20 I’ve seen and I like it ! The detractors will have their say but one way to look at it is that it still has scientific merit. It’s not just “ Art “. If you are interested in bone structure, you don’t take a photo that includes the skin do you ? So if your interest of study is the structure of the gas clouds then a starless image gives you that. Just my 2 cents. Great image. Well done
Looks great, I use Starnet as a standalone application, seperate my stars from the nebula and mainly high pass filtering. The difficulty I found is that stretching the nebula separately is that putting the stars back in do not look 100%. Still learning this process experimenting as i go.