Thank you Martin!
A very good find indeed! I believe when things are wrong in an image processed using something as advanced as pixinsight, most of the time it'll always be the user didn't use that tool correctly!
I presume it is the combination of several factors: bad star masks generated for larger stars with flairs, caused by my factory default focuser protruding and blocking the primary very slightly; some wavelet sharpening artifacts with star mask that doesn't cover diffraction spikes; as well as some minor star reduction that made it look more obvious. I'm looking forward to either sawing off my current focuser tube by a dozen mm or just replacing it.
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Originally Posted by Startrek
Beautiful image of the Sculptor
Well done !!
Being solely an imager using Newts , only one observation if I may , the diffraction spikes on the larger stars seem completely intersect the cores of the stars which is unusual for an f5 Newt and make them look a bit odd. It maybe a processing thing in PI ??
Other than that a fabulous image !!
Martin
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