[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by lazjen

Very nice image!

Q: Did you try to remove the star halos - the red/magenta? Or is this something you prefer not to do?

Thanks, Chris.

You should have seen the magenta stars before! We automatically identified well over 65,000 stars, and greatly attenuated their magenta haloes. However, we try not to mess too much with the haloes of the very largest ones, like Lambda Centauri. Perhaps we could have been more zealous here, but we think it's not too distracting. To get rid of yet more magenta, all we'd need to do is make the boxes around the stars a bit bigger.

Originally Posted by Andy01

Ah yes, "The Cauldron" as I like to think of it- as it resembles the olympic flame.
Crikey that's sharp- guess you can't argue with a 20" light bucket!
Great work guys, so does your software do mosaics too, I'm intrigued?

A very nicely baked chook, yum

Thanks muchly, Andy! Yes, the "Prometheus" module of GoodLook, which does registration, stacking, and artifact rejection, treats all images as highly overlapping mosaics. If it really is a mosaic, you don't have to do anything different or special. So long as all frames overlap the key frame by at least say 25%, all the registration, normalization, and blending happens automatically. Some of the subs were taken under full moon, others at new. The difference is handled automatically without having to do anything special.