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Old 03-09-2010, 03:54 PM
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By default i believe that DSS doesn't apply these settings to the saved Tiff, if you bring it into PS you should almost have a black image. This is where you start applying a iterative Levels and followed by curves to bring your data to the full 16 bit gamut well as much as you can in any case.

As for blowing out or Too much exposure Stars generally blow out on DSLR sensors that is the pixel well depth has been filled. You can see the effect on the stars of this happening where the center of the star is White and then as you move away from the centroid you get color back. You can move to a HDR method of stacking different length exposures (avandonk does these extremely well.) or alternatively buy a camera with huge pixel wells allowing more data to land in there before saturating.

Hope that helps

Brendan.
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