[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Very nice colors but looks like noise reduction was a little too aggressive. The features and stars are bound together.

Thanks Marc!

Yep, tried to hide the horrible stars I wrote about but it didn't work.
Anyway, here's a repro think it looks better but it shows how bad the stars are.

I recently pulled everything apart on the scope and mucked up the spacing of the coma corrector, plus there's image tilt.

Originally Posted by alpal

A nice picture that needs new processing in my humble opinion.
The stars look damaged but I realise that you had coma issues.

I would have removed the stars as per:
http://www.astro-photography.net/Star-Removal.html

(note delete doesn't work - just use fill & content aware.)

then processed the nebula -
later I'd put the stars back from a not so stretched previous version.
That would keep them smaller & tighter without tails.

cheers
Allan

Thanks Allan!

My very old PS7 doesn't have that option unfortunately. One day I'll let the moth's out of my wallet and upgrade.

Originally Posted by alistairsam

hi Justin,
yep, a repro from scratch would help, the stars are smudged especially in the bottom left and top left.
was this an attempt to reduce noise?

Cheers
Alistair

Thanks Alistair,

Your right, here's the repro.
No problem with noise, just got carried away trying to hide the horrible stars.

Cheers,

Justin.