Stars bloating during Galaxy processing

[dhalliday]

Amen
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveh56/4444221272/sizes/l/

Dave
 
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[Nocturnal]

I'm not even on board with painting masks. I think masks should be created from the original data. Sure the processed image shows more warts that way but I'm not going to artificially improve my images by being artistic.

[Juan Conejero]

I'm not even on board with painting masks. I think masks should be created from the original data. Sure the processed image shows more warts that way but I'm not going to artificially improve my images by being artistic.

As a DSA signer I can only wholeheartedly agree with this.

Hand-painted masks are becoming more and more popular these days, but they are not astrophotography, IMO.

[Harry page]

Hi Gents

Ok We will have to agree to disagree on this one 

Harry

[dhalliday]

OK...I went into some new data...(M57..what else !)
AND I resolved to use the "star mask" each and every time
Inverted for Unsharp,decon
"Straight up" for morphology and decon to round them a bit..Sadly they are still no work of art,but better.

So...while not 100% succesful,I realize that I need to stop being lazy,and use this feature A LOT more...
My M57 obsession,well known to all,continues.
My goal is to get a LARGE sample of data,over an extended set of seeing conditions, and see if culling bad frames +++ is the answer.
I have also ordered a mount upgrade.
The best round star is one you get from nature !
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveh56/4465704990/

Dave