Processing Stars separately from Image

Questions and answers about processing in StarTools and how to accomplish certain tasks.
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TimN
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Processing Stars separately from Image

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StarTools has some excellent tools for dealing with stars. However, stretching an image to bring out the detail in a faint nebula often blows the stars up making fixing them difficult. In a perfect world I would like to stretch the stars differently then the rest of the image. That would produce the best result. I tried masking the stars before doing a stretch (develop) and that didn't work. So, I was thinking of stretching the image twice and combining them in the layer module. Once to bring out the stars and the second time to bring out nebula. This would result in the best of both worlds. Is this possible. Is there a better way of doing it?
Alvinillo
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Re: Processing Stars separately from Image

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TimN
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Re: Processing Stars separately from Image

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Thanks Alvinillo, I'll give that a try. Looks like an excellent tool. I'm surprised that I didn't see it.
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