loosing control on star core saturation

[lucchett]

Quite often I end up with star cores that loose their color , or that respond very little to saturation boost.

what are the critical steps/ trics to be considered /adopted to minimize this issue during the processing?

I usually take r, g, b , binning 1x1. 

Many tahnks,
Andrea

[bhwolf]

What's the saturation level of the pixels?  It can be tough on faint nebulas to keep some stars from not saturating... But that could be what is happening...

[lucchett]

you mean at the end of the processing or in the raw frame?
thank you
Andrea

[bhwolf]

At the end of integration but before processing.  Hover over the stars and look at the readout levels for each color.  It could be they are a all saturated...