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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
There is in fact large and small scale structure in the antennae. E.G. some of the knots you see on the outer fringes are actually blurred stars that, with good data, would look much clearer. I try not to erase these, even though they may look like noise.
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Dear Marcus -
who said anything about losing or erasing stars that are there now in your picture?
You can stack all the frames & even blur the image you create but
use it as a blurred layer mask to increase the intensity of which ever areas are whiter - in that mask by clicking luminosity in Photoshop for that layer
& then increasing the brightness using curves.
This will bring up the faint halo better for the tidal streams.
It has to work.
By the way - it's not cheating or devaluing your sharpness of the picture you already have.
It's using the so called lost information to increase the brightness in the areas you want.
cheers
Allan