Another Dumbbell

Hi

How did you blur the brightest stars without bluring the nebula?

DB

Thanks guys.

David, I think it's actually just saturation of the chip that caused that. It gets worse during processing. I had to heavily crop the image to remove two stars that exhibited quite a bit of blooming. I was also a bit out of focus which didn't help.

If you wanted to do that manually the Astronomy Tools action set for photoshop has a "Select Brighter Stars" function.

One small quibble though. 20 October 2007 hasn't happened yet! Smile

oops. But that's what it will look like in 2 month's time

Cheers,


Trev