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Old 12-11-2014, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by SkyViking View Post
I like to emphasize star colour in my images, but haven't had to do anything in particular to capture such colours. I take 5min subs and naturally the brighter stars will be saturated in their cores, but all stars are recorded as Gaussian profiles so regardless of saturation they still contain colour information within a certain radius from the centre.
When I stretch my data I take care not to saturate the brightest areas, including the stars. This allows for colour to be maintained during processing.

Yes I should have made that point too. I get core saturation but not total saturation, and that means I have colour around the outer edges of the stars. Only really bright stars are over saturated.
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