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... covered rather vaguely. How do they do that? For example, do they use local contrast enhancements, like we discussed before (Contrast, Sharp, HDR modules)? Do they use deconvolution or something like the Super Structure module does? All these explanations regarding “Removing Artifacts” and the ...

... becomes what happens after color composition, since for the (longer) RGB-only data a cleaner chrominance will have been stashed away for the Color module. Unfortunately I have not yet found a way to add that chrominance data back in (wanting to use ST's default Scientific + CIELab Retention if ...

... minutes, with your fancy-pants mono setup. Bear in mind also that I have absolutely no idea how choices I make in the optidev phase of the accents module affect the result. Spent some time today redoing it, trying to maximize IX. A bit different RoI, a touch of gamma shadows in HDR. I think that ...

How difficult would it be to add a separate alternative HDR module with the 1.7 version functions in the current 1.9 Beta?

... from 1.7HDR is that you do end up with slightly bigger Stars , which its affect can be reversed in Shrink.Other than that 1.7 HDR is a brilliant module I don’t know why but it seems way too powerful even throttling the settings back The default setting of 1.8 HDR leaves my image looking like ...

... my 2600MC as the data from the 2600MM is so clean and low noise ( using my Antlia 3nm NB filters the noise is almost negligible,using the denoise module only requires around 1 or 2 pixels only, and this is under Bortle 8 and Moon glare ) Yes the 2600MC is an excellent OSC camera and is a great ...

... to 71% ( I hate pixel peeping and seeing blocky small stars ) thus leaving an image size of around 4,200 x 2,800 after cropping edges. Some of the modules in 1.7 like Sharpen , Superstructure and Decon can take 2 or 3 minutes to complete. SV Decon using samples in 1.8 is way too powerful ( even ...

... > SVdecon > Color > Shrink > Superstr] to produce an image of nicely coloured small stars and then turn off tracking and apply the 'Using the Heal module to process stars independently' special technique to generate a stars only image. Save the 'stars only' image. Now reload the original stacked ...

... 50 and 75 % so that any change in the amplitudes is easily visible. You can open the images in ST (linear) and then go straight on to the Sharp module. I used Structure Size = large (default) in this case. For example, I set the Scale sliders to 0 except Scale 3 and increased the amount to 1000%. ...

... which basically involve creating two differently stretched files, one with just stars and one with just the nebula and combining them in the layer module. All the processing was in StarTools. It was quite a 'quick 'n dirty' process and a much better result could be achieved starting from the original ...