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Personally I like the flux sparkle effect a lot. I've just tried it out on my own M13 and to my eye it makes a fantastic difference, as long as you don't over do it. I don't think the flux module can invent stars. Pixel peeping between a before and after 'fluxed' image it appears to be sharpening, a...

Hi, I have added functionality similar to this in the latest version of STReplay (v0.62.86) see here When used in 'Monitor Session' mode there are now two options: Save session log with image Save session masks with image So whenever the image is saved the StarTools session log and/or session masks...

Thanks Mike, that was excactly what I was looking for. Maybe not 'correct' but functional.

Hi Ivo,

I kind of suspected something like that but thought I'd ask in case StarTools offer to attempt to reverse the stretch when loading non-linear data made a difference.

Ed

HI, sometimes I've processed an image, thought I've finished, saved it off, and then when I've seen it on a different display or under different lighting conditions I'm not happy with the colour balance. I can go through re-processing the image from the start with different settings in the Colour mo...

Hi Ivo, Having recently discovered the joy of STReplay I now appreciate the value of the StarTools log. This leads to a feature request... Can we have an option to save the relevant section of the StarTools.log as a separate file at the same time, location and base filename as the saved output image...

Hi Mike in Rancho,
Another cracking version.
Regarding the artifact on the right, I went back through the subs and I think it might be a smear on the Coma Corrector. It's on every sub but so faint it's nearly invisible even at full histogram stretch in Siril.
Ed

Thanks to all that chipped in. I've settled on this version as my final attempt (for now). https://storage.googleapis.com/dso-browser.com/astrophotography/picture-54d2ac104dd07f12c337a78e3840a579-original.png I think I've fixed the colours to be more natural, opened up the top end dynamic range a li...

Hi Charles,
That's a great result, thanks, and now I see it side-by-side with mine I can see the touch of purple around my core.
Any chance you could share your log so I can precisely see the processing differences?
Ed

Wow, thanks Ivo. :D That means a lot coming from someone with so much experience of image processing and analysis. While I'm happy with the end result I do feel that I had to abuse the processing quite a bit to get there. I think I need to improve my actual data to have a chance of a nice result on ...