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Old 18-05-2015, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by jase View Post
Rick, could you not just use the stars from the Ha filtered subs alone. I would imagine they present a small stellar profile given the narrow bandpass of the filter. Would be easier, yes?
Jase,

The Ha definitely had tighter stars but I couldn't use the Ha as Luminance by itself because there were significant features that were only visible in the Oiii (the blue shell around NGC6888 and the whole Soap Bubble.) So, I built the Luminance with PixelMath from the original Ha and Oiii. I suppose I could have used the starless Oiii in this process and I would have ended up with just the Ha stars but I would have needed to clean up some of the artefacts in the starless Oiii.

Ideally, I would have some RGB stars to plug in to the image but alas I don't...

Did that answer your question or did I misunderstand you?

Cheers,
Rick.
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