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Offline GrantBoxer

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Help with Veil Nebula
« on: 2013 October 12 06:32:18 »
I have collected rgb images of the Veil Nebula but the star field overwhelms the Nebula (visually). Can anyone recommend a technique to reduce the stars (sizes?) to allow the Nebula to appear more clearly.
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Offline Tom OD

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Re: Help with Veil Nebula
« Reply #1 on: 2013 October 12 06:42:39 »
You can make a star mask, invert it, and then use the morphological tool to shrink the stars.
Tom
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Offline GrantBoxer

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Re: Help with Veil Nebula
« Reply #2 on: 2013 October 12 06:48:09 »
Thanks Tom, I will give it a try!
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Offline marekc

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Re: Help with Veil Nebula
« Reply #3 on: 2013 October 12 10:10:31 »
You may also want to check out RBA's tutorial on star-shrinking:

http://www.deepskycolors.com/archive/2011/09/08/star-size-reduction-via-Morphological-.html

He demonstrated this here at AIC yesterday (using a different image), and we were able to see it work well in real-time.

- Marek
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