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Old 18-10-2017, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by DiscoDuck View Post
If there's anything to fix that faint blotchiness, I'm all ears. I suspect though it's simply from the bit of noise reduction applied (and that wasn't much) and I just need longer total exposure time than the 3 hours used there??

Nice picture Paul.
Photoshop can clean up that noise by using a blurred layer mask -
reducing the colour selectively in each channel, and adding noise.

see here but use a mask so you don't add noise to the galaxy:
http://bf-astro.com/backgndrepair.htm

Note: you can do better than the link by selectively doing it to each color channel.

cheers
Allan

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