I am not sure what the concern is about decon. Its a valuable tool. I haven't seen any artifacts from decon except if used too hard you get harsh star rings.
So like anything in processing easy does it. But I am curious Mike as to what artifacts you see or suspect? Minimum filter can create a wormy pattern that does not in fact exist in the image but not decon or at least the decon I am using (CCDstack, positive constraint 5 iterations, auto select stars is quite mild).
Ideally I would prefer not to use it but it has its uses. One is when one colour sub has larger stars and you do decon on that colour channel only so you don't get bad coloured halos (tip from Marcus a few years back - very handy thanks Marcus). Also the multi scale decon technique from Ken Crawford is useful at times on a galaxy image.
Greg.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Ah yes.. unless of course they did the same thing  ...
It's a fabulous image Ray, I think you know I think that   just musing over some processing ideas, t'is all 
Looking clear as a bell here, have flexed off tomorow morning soooo, I'm going out tonight with some fresh inspiration caus'o you so thanks a miwion buddy 
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