Re: RC BlurXterminator …. Any comments ?
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2023 7:17 pm
Cool. I gave it a quick test on my poor, low integration 1-night data of M81/82, since I already have so much stuff in the background annotated. Even cranked it up to 20 iterations, centroid tracking, and turned off deringing momentarily.
A pretty artifacted mess, as you can imagine. I was binned at 50% and suppose I could have left it native.
But indeed, little blurs, even tiny ones, retained their blobby distant galaxy shape. Only one I saw, a PGC that started out star shaped to begin with, got a bit brighter in the center, but still not exactly like a nearby actual star of about the same beginning brightness.
The only places I see of possible breakdown are the cores of larger galaxies, here M81, which seemingly can be star-ized. Actually pretty common, and I can't think so many such galaxies just so happen to have a foreground MW star dead-center.
A pretty artifacted mess, as you can imagine. I was binned at 50% and suppose I could have left it native.
But indeed, little blurs, even tiny ones, retained their blobby distant galaxy shape. Only one I saw, a PGC that started out star shaped to begin with, got a bit brighter in the center, but still not exactly like a nearby actual star of about the same beginning brightness.
The only places I see of possible breakdown are the cores of larger galaxies, here M81, which seemingly can be star-ized. Actually pretty common, and I can't think so many such galaxies just so happen to have a foreground MW star dead-center.