Hi Peter- thanks so much for your feedback I really appreciate your input. I struggled with the stars in this image. I’m not sure if it was the sky quality or just my processing but they seemed really bland. My attempts to boost the saturation and ‘glow’ has probably backfired a bit and as I look at it probably deserves a repro. I actually did extract the stars in PI (star exterminator) and process separately but think I need to research some better techniques as I pretty much just use GHS and curves. Thanks again for your thoughtful comments
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Originally Posted by PRejto
A very nice image indeed. I used to image under such sky as you and it truly is a struggle, so well done!
If you will permit, however, I think you can rethink how your brighter stars are processed? The first issue that struck me is that they seem slighly oblong horizontally. Might this be tracking, or maybe a stacking issue? And, the cores appear to be burned out. Have you already tried removing stars and processing separately? The current look, to me, is that perhaps you didn't and the stars are overly stretched in order to enhance the galaxies. If that wasn't the case, you could rather quickly take shorter exposures to obtain better stars and avoid the look of overly blow cores.
Still a lovely image that you can be proud of.
Peter
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