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Very nice tweaking Paul. One technique to recover from oversharpened stars is the Noel Carboni action "more fuzzy less crunchy" which works well.
All it is though is simply:
1. Colour range tool select the stars and then expand the selection 2or 3 pixels.
2. Gaussian blur to suit.
3. Deselect.
Layers are a cool way to control processing flows. CS4 does that. I just ordered the CS5 upgrade which gets released the end of April.
That's a nice offer from GSO. I think it makes a lot of business sense for them to offer you that as I haven't seen any other images from this scope that match yours.
The first thing I want to see when I look at buying a scope are the images others have taken using one. If you can't find any I tend not to buy otherwise its all sales pitch and no proof.
I see Astronomics have a listing for the 12 inch for US$4495. Perhaps that is the Al tubed scope. A 16 inch truss is planned by year end so you've got a nice upgrade path ahead of you there.
Greg.
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