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Old 26-07-2008, 10:30 PM
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Wow -40C that is some serious cooling!

Nice images. You are pushing that ED80 to the limit of its resolution.
The stars may have more colour in the data you've collected.

If you have Photoshop I would try selecting out the stars with the colour range tool, expand the selection 2 pixels, feather it 2 or 4 pixels, then run 1 or 2 pixels of minimum filter, then increase saturation 60% and then perhaps colour balance to bring out even more colour with the highlights colours and then deselect the stars.

Then run a bit of smart sharpen to sharpen it up or if you want to get clever use a mask to selectively sharpen the neb areas where there is detail and nowhere else.

Greg.
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