Thanks Marcus - I did ask, and in my opinion it's posts like yours where someone takes the time to explain a few processes and share some techniques that make this forum so valuable! I tried PS and a few carefully tuned runs of the smart sharpen and was able to bring out a similar amount of detail. Very cool, thanks! I just need to figure out the PI equivalent so I'm not cheating
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thanks again!
Andrew.
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
Let me reiterate - this is a very fine image Andrew!  Also, I'm not a PI person, I do all my post calibration and RGB combine processing in PS with layers and masks using home grown and commercial tools.
In any case, FWIW (and because you asked), below is what I did to your image (your original is on the left). It's 20% full scale. Noise was kept at the same level as the original (when viewed at full res). Stellar profiles are larger but generally within the margin of your decon artefacts. Didn't touch your colour or saturation - they're spot on IMO.
Caveats : - Because I'm not operating on raw data I can't get optimal results so this is only a quick and dirty done for illustrative purposes only!
- If I was using raw data I'd spend much more time on stars, detail and noise processing.
- Finally, detail and depth are, of course, a personal taste issue!
Cheers, Marcus |