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That looks really really nice and natural.
You have same setup as me essentially, what camera are you using, AA26c?
I’ve been away from home a few days, cant wait to try the new optidev!

Mike in Rancho Yes, I agree GHS is very tedious to use indeed, and yes, its really hard to get all stars to look natural whichever software and method you use. I have had more success with the starless approach, but of course the tight stars from svdecon are so beautifully small too! Aghh. You are ...

Roger that mate!
All good stuff.
Will try 1600x1200at 100% and reduce % if it fails.
Thx again.

Regarding stretches, Here is the ‘innovative’ method now used in both Pixinsight and Siril, The General Hyperbolic Stretch method. As Startools in Optidev tries to balance darks, mids, and highs with no overall bias to either, I wonder what stretch it uses, Of course it selects its own optimum param...

That’ll be it mate, i know my usual 2408x???? Can be in the range 400kb to 800kb,
So i’ll copy them to 500kb in future.
Thanks for that.

In the recent M106 discussion, I had real trouble posting my pics due to ‘file too big’ messages, even though only 2408x???? And in jpg. Can someone please tell me the constraints on direct image inclusion (rather than a link) on this forum? Dimensions, format (any preference?), bit depth, overall i...

Mike in Rancho On star removal, I suppose the devil is in the details of how it is applied. Your write-up appears to signify use as more similar to perhaps shrink, or piecing together aspects that are both real, but in need of different non-linear stretching. Worthy of some pondering. Yes , exactly...

decay Thanks Dietmar, Yes i used to have an astrobin account many years ago, but never kept it up. I dont have a library as such online, but I post the most recent pics I have done here. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088635940203 Yes, either starting an image in STools which is not lin...

No problem my friend.
We are all trying to get the best from the data we obtain with great struggle, and everyone’s satisfaction of an image is unique to themselves.
Sharing gives appreciation of others views!

decay Dietmar, Well, I’ll give a best I can answer to this. What I don’t want however is to start a StarTools vs other software strong debate, or to in any way Insult or abuse, or offend StarTools. I bought StarTools as soon as I saw it available in 2013, and have used it in some part in literally ...