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I've never been able to successfully remove stars from ST-processed images. Something in autodev and/or filmdev and/or wipe and/or color modules breaks them for Starnet++. The results come out looking really poor, with tons of artifacts. Hi, It absolutely leaves artifacts sometimes, mostly with rea...

As said, I get suspicious right off the bat when stars are deformed in an atypical way. Stars are bloated and "swallow" each other. Well a reason for that might definitely be the difference in resolution between my equipment and a Planewave 17. :D Also puzzling, is that, what remains of the destroy...

I processed(a bit fast maybe :) ) the only data I had on the subject to try to help with the problem OP had. Thanks. How fast was "fast"? If it isn't too long, could you do my data, in the first post? Hi! I am sorry, I am less than useless at processing HOO-palettes from OSC-data. :D What I was sug...

Hi Mike, But really my only beef with your initial post was that you shoehorned, slightly disparagingly IMHO, properly ethical AP techniques as "absolute scientific accuracy." I don't buy that, and it's really just a way to open the door to wholesale manipulation and give it cover. Well, since I'm n...

Hi Ivo, First: I processed(a bit fast maybe :) ) the only data I had on the subject to try to help with the problem OP had. That was the reason, certainly not to complain about Startools. Regarding autodev, it might be that I just haven't understood how to use it, but looking at the processed pictur...

Ok, I'll bite. I have used Startools almost exclusively for a couple of years. I completely understand Ivo's scientific approach when it comes to preserving the integrity of the data. However, I also (as Opestovsky) want my pictures to look the way *I* want them to look. I am of the opinion that Ast...

Thanks Ivo, I'll try to tinker some more!

/Ulf

Yeah, you are probably right. I really don't know what NGC6888 should look like. :P But the starfield then? Here is a comparison between your pictures when it comes to stars: Starfield.jpg Is there a way, without using starnet etc. to remove the tiny specks in the left hand picture, thus getting a l...

Thanks for the help Ivo! I'll try to show you via a picture (Anne S) which I think have nice detail in the nebula and a tamed starfield with your picture as comparison: o3(stars).jpg The "wispy" O3 I'm rambling about is in the bottom-left corner of the nebula.. :P I tried using the Entropy module a ...

Hmmmm... Very strange... I found processing this dataset trivial (due to its high quality). Even just importing the dataset and running AutoDev first time without further pre-processing shows a wealth of detail? Would you be able to be more specific as to what you are doing, what you were expecting...