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Originally Posted by Andy01
Hey Col, that's impressive stuff with big impact! 
IMO - I prefer the red one aesthetically, the big stars have not been blown out as much as they have on the other ones.
The over sharpening is interesting and dramatic, but to paraphrase Strongman Mike - "Gaseous structures, probably should'nt have too hard an edge". So is the Ara wall gas, dust or both? Hmmmm 
If anyone knows the answer, it's probably you though! 
(Sigh) I dream of round stars like yours - still havn't sorted out my issues....  |
Thanks Andy, I definitely prefer the red one visually as well but from a technical standpoint, the colour is wrong
It was a 5-10 minute process end to end. Most of the detail in that version comes from removing the L component from the other version and then putting it into the red one.
It is right that there are no hard edges with dust and space... but... it’s all a matter of distance. Take Bok globules, they often appear to have a sharp edge between the dark dusty globule and their background but it really is a gradual transition but that isn’t visible at 8,000 light years away.
The same also happens with gas and this can be seen in the Pillars of Creation from Hubble. Some parts have hard high contrast edges while others are gradual and more diffuse.