There were four bright stars that were bloated considerably in my image of Sharpless 2-101. I applied a minimum filter in PhotoShop and was able to tame the obnoxious stars a bit. The original and reprocessed images are at
http://home.att.net/~dpersyk/new.htm
I ordinarily do not like to apply such processing steps to an astro image, but in this case I felt it was justified to correct an obvious defect introduced by the optics and my acquisition method.
I’d like to hear your views on alterations like these: Are they justified or is this too much of a processing modification? How do you handle blooming stars?
Thank you for visiting my site.
Clear skies,
Dennis Persyk
Igloo Observatory Home Page http://dpersyk.home.att.net
Hampshire, IL
http://home.att.net/~dpersyk/new.htm
I ordinarily do not like to apply such processing steps to an astro image, but in this case I felt it was justified to correct an obvious defect introduced by the optics and my acquisition method.
I’d like to hear your views on alterations like these: Are they justified or is this too much of a processing modification? How do you handle blooming stars?
Thank you for visiting my site.
Clear skies,
Dennis Persyk
Igloo Observatory Home Page http://dpersyk.home.att.net
Hampshire, IL
