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Old 30-12-2014, 12:33 PM
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Hi Stuart,

I tried an assembly of exposures 6 minutes apart (every other sub), with the same result. Then tried exposures 12 minutes apart to insure there was a significant gap between the stars. No rejection. Hmmm. OK, I'll do more reading on this. It would seem simple enough as I see many of these done on the web and posted here, and there is a lot of ion tail streamer detail that should pop in a starless image.

j
Use Minimum combine not median therein lies the problem! Minimum may leave some artifacts but they can be cloned out.

The alternative may be to make starless images and stack them then add to the aligned/stacked star image.

Greg.
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