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Old 15-08-2012, 12:27 AM
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Thanks, Quite a bit of processing in this one. I actually did use HDR. My first attempt at HDR with pixinsight, talk about difficult and counter intuitive. I couldn't actually figure out how to tone the value down so I ended up making a mask which was very grey with black stars to stop the HDR tool from overdoing it and from destroying the stars. The end result is only a slight HDR effect with the majority of detail being brought out through about 5-6 different curve transformations.

Other than that, just some saturation, minor noise reduction, background correction and slight deconvolution.
I just ran it through one iteraration of HDR in photoshop
with adjustments to detail & other settings & I got this:
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