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Old 01-08-2023, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Geoff45 View Post
Thanks Mike. I agree about the stars. The difficulty arises from the way I processed the image. I pulled the stars off then processed the nebulosity and afterwards put the stars back. Sounds easy but it’s not. I was also trying to keep all the faint stars in the background so I didn’t push the star stretch too much, so when they got put back they were a bit muted by the bright nebulosity.
Fair'nuf, yeah it's not as straight forward as one might think. After analysing 100's of deep sky astro entries recently for APP, I noticed this effect in a few images, it may be a result of similar approaches, involving star removal and replacing..? Characterised by muted star colours with no shine.

Mike
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