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Originally Posted by alocky
Magnificent mosaic, that's one of the best depictions of the Orion molecular cloud I've seen. Can I ask why some of the brighter stars have diffraction spikes - given your imaging train, I can't imagine what is causing them?
cheers,
Andrew
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Those star spikes are special effects added through a PS software plugin by Pro Digital Software. While it may be considered blasphemy to do that, I thought it added a bit of sparkle to the overall result. nice thing about the software is that the sharpness, length, angle, halo effects are all fully user adjustable. I might go for more subtle spike effects once I get the short m42 exposures layered into the final image. Or none at all.
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