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Jochen, thanks so much. I now had a couple of approaches to try with what Mike shared. Such great and helpful support and advice all round, I am impressed with the ST community here :thumbsup: Funny you mentioned the valve versus transistor thing, i'd been thinking similar, vinyl LP versus CD disk.....

mike - this is brilliant and grateful you have put the time into a possible solution. Will definitely give this a try and continue to experiment. Be great if I could do it all in ST. Who knows I might even get used to pointy stars ;-). thanks again. rob Sounds like best for me would be to layer in s...

thanks Ivo, I really appreciate you taking the time to provide a detailed and comprehensive reply and one that in the main I understand too (well done :-)). Some background that might help explain my point of view. It certainly wont hurt me to step back and understand what's going on more than over ...

thanks again Mike and Jochen, this is great and am glad you went a little off-topic as noise managmnegt is high on my priority list too... i tend to think first and foremost on noise in capture wanting lotsof iteration and using dithering etc...after than I think first do I need and how much binning...

thanks Jochen, I'll need to delve deeper into the WIPE settings as I use the presets now as unsure, and occasionally play with settinsg just to see if I think they are having a positive or negative effect to gradients... i check the tool tips but a lot of the words etc dont really "mean" much to me ...

thanks again Mike, lots to digest here, some I'm aware of, much not. At the very least I'm looping at WIPE and AUtoDev as things I need to approach with a bit more intelligence than I have thus far... in the main using my 3nm NB filters, good flats and cropping before WIPE there's not much to be don...

Thanks Jochen, to clairify I am using 1.8 (poorly no doubt and have struggled with SV decon) and do run a second stretch after wipe. I always turn off background neutralisation etc in APP and save and use only unstretched stacks. As I note above back to Mike though I've likley been mucking up the st...

Mike thanks so much for this detailed and very helpful reply. I think I must most definitely be in the soft blob camp :-) Yes I missed listing the second autodev step (Mainly cuase I dont think you can really see anything or proceed without that step after WIPE anyway), but have learnt quite a bit f...

Hi all, really hoping I can get some help with my Startools processing... I've simply never been able to get nice natural looking stars using the tool. How I process inevitably seems to end up with tight blown out cores and extended diffuse glow around these cores for moderate to bright stars... thu...