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Old 30-08-2011, 09:20 PM
bloodhound31
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Originally Posted by gregbradley View Post
5 minutes is quite long even for a lens without autoguiding. So yes probably the fact of not autoguided.

You can do a Photoshop correction by lassoing that area, feathering it 20 pixels, duplicate layer, set it to darken mode then filters/other/offset and play with the vertical and horizontal numbers (they may need to be - numbers ie -1) until it looks better. You may need to boost slightly with curves as sometimes it dims the stars. Fine adjustment by opacity of the slider or edit/fade.

If you're not comfortable with the above I am happy to do it for you. It'd take me 2.5 minutes (I'll time myself!).

Greg.
Thanks again guys!

Greg, very generous offer mate, thanks you! I will see if I have time to stuff around with images past or move on to the next one. I will certainly be practicing this out there at night to hone the focus, guiding etc. I'd rather perfect it in-camera than try to fix in post if you know what I mean.

Your methods certainly sound like a skill...(that I probably don't have)...either that or my software might not do it...PSE6...

Muchos grassyass

Baz.
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