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Originally Posted by mill
Aha!!
Thank you Alex 
Learned something new  |
Another thought on this too....I also got a beautiful shot of M42 about a
month ago.....delicate detail right out in to the faintest parts (not as good as Doug's).
My point is, I thought I had burned out the core terribly.
Thing is, the detail was all still there, it was just the curve I had applied
made the faint stuff look good at the expense of the core.
When I went back to the original FIT (the full dynamic range ) and applied
another type of stretch, guess what....beautiful detail at the outer edges
and 4 Trap stars pop out in perfect detail too.
The detail was all there....shows the fantastic dynamic range of these
CCDs and the A/D converters in them, compared to lesser devices (ie
webcams etc).
In the hands of a beginner like me, I just wasn't making the thing sing
like others (like Doug) can .
Steve