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Generally I've thought of the oversaturated cores and hard-edged concentric donuts (colored or not) as artifacts of acquisition or processing and so not actually real. In a lot of cases the auto star mask works well enough, but sometimes not as much with larger stars that might have extended halos ...

Thank you so much! I am gonna have to use those tips when I get home and have a chance to work on it again.

Thank you guys for all the help! Ivo, your explanations make a lot of sense. Thank you for those. I really need to get out of the mindset of using a linear workflow. But screwing up is part of learning I imagine, lol. The issue I was referring to was the orange stars that are pure white in the cente...

As promised, the links to the data are below. Blue - https://www.dropbox.com/s/n58ihv703g3bpzg/Master%20Blue_r.fit?dl=0 Green - https://www.dropbox.com/s/m3m3bggc1gdo39h/Master%20Green_r.fit?dl=0 Lum - https://www.dropbox.com/s/yskmt8ivnjmd7x2/Master%20Lum.fit?dl=0 Red - https://www.dropbox.com/s/03...

Sorry for the difficulties with the image. I admit I am more of a forum lurker than poster, lol. I'll post dropbox links to the data when I get home from work. Thanks for taking a look!

Sorry, I meant to post the image and not just a link: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DjeI1L3XIAMB6aOr-c4LyiA3OSXvZOGTZg9AfTuGJuk7C2oUUjfmIT9vrXuSQ4eaW-oAGm2vV3xSz8Sjyaj_kcXSSNXwrnYcflpjYEO9I2U_9xVSbm9MihHG6WGPhi6360xDIRWpKUsyfJKIRlHjA5-cI7yNtYTCp4qcBJ8UeySpKC3GsHw08EYklOaA_Y6Freermk76QrtbDtb7p6AV...

Hello all. I'm a new StarTools user (coming from PI). I must say, I am really impressed so far. I'm currently spreading the word with my AP friends and am hopeful they will adopt it as well. Up to this point, I've just been trying to get used to the workflow and some of the basics for the modules. I...