Cheers Elliot. You’re absolutely right and it’s one area I have a bit of trouble with StarTools. That said, my earlier attempts had even more bloated stars so this is an improvement. I hope Ivo has something planned for star control
one big improvement was to set the blue channel (and green) to zero exposure in the Compose module which used the red channel with smaller stars.
Oh also my scope is just a doublet so the blue channel has a tendency to balloon. That said, Siril handled the bloom quite well. In Siril, I used the red layer for luminance, red and green and the green layer for blue. This gave me nice tight stars
Thanks for commenting and bringing this up, there’s clearly more work for me to do