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First I just want to state that I'm a total beginner with this software. I wasn't really sure if I should reply or post my attempt at all, but even if it does't help you at all, it doesn't hurt I guess. Somebody will probably be along to do a proper attempt for you and answer your questions more con...

I know some folks are "offended" or whatever about artificially adding diffraction spikes to stars...but I believe it can be a true enhancement if it's not overdone. I think you absolutely nailed it here...that adds just the right touch to this image, imo, and handled a tricky issue with the stars ...

Thanks again for another detailed reply. Had another crack at it again first thing this morning. I'm still really struggling with those two stars and cheated some diffraction spiked on top of them for now :P. I will keep plugging away at those two stars tonight. I'm pleased with the cluster itself n...

Thought I'd upload my best attempt tonight. http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm174/ubertank/M13GlobularCluster_zps7c19bb82.png [/url] As you can see, I'm still struggling to keep those two stars under control. They are visibly pixelated . Overall I'm quite happy though. It's getting there. Any adv...

Hi there, Thanks so much for the reply. Yes it has helped a lot. To be honest, I have spent the last two hours this evening testing and playing around and obviously cannot get to the same level as your image and am still having some issues, but it's progressing. I intended tonight to type out a leng...

Hi again guys, After my last post requesting some processing help on M51, I thought I would ask for a bit of help with processing of M13. I have followed the process gboulton went through probably 10-15 times, trying to understand what each amendment is making to the image and it's been such a huge ...

I'm so impressed. Thanks so much for taking the time to do that. I can't tell you how helpful it is to have it laid out like that so you can perform each step, see the change it makes and read the tooltip. I'll go through that process a few times to get accustomed to it. The software is really impre...

Hi there guys, I put up a post below recently regarding trying to understand the effect autodev was having on my image. After a fair bit of playing around I have managed to get to a final image which I am quite happy with, bear in mind it is my first astrophotography image. That said, I have seen wh...

Hi there, Can anyone offer me any insight into why whenever I open an image in autodev it looks like this: http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm174/ubertank/startoolsisse_zps1b9d35dd.png [/url] I'm very new to astrophotography so it would be ncie to have a more automated feature than the standard de...