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[bh]

Great effort...I'll be back...(Who said that?).

Regards...bh.

[selden]

Maxim and others,

While working on an (as yet incomplete) Addon, I came up with one way to remove stars from a Nebula picture.

To find out how I went from

to

see http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/star-removal.html

[bh]

Wow...now that is neat!...Selden...you just can't stop!

Regards...bh.

[Duck]

...
While working on an (as yet incomplete) Addon, I came up with one way to remove stars from a Nebula picture.
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Very good for monochromatic nebulas
I never thinked about filling gaps with a blurred layer
I'll try it on my ngc 7000 original image, to compare it with the released one.
Thank you very much!

[DaveMc]

While working on an (as yet incomplete) Addon, I came up with one way to remove stars from a Nebula picture.

Selden,

Thanks a ton for this tip, I used your technique in Photoshop on B33 and it looks awesome! A more multicolored image like M1 required a bit more patience and hand tweaking to get the mask right but still looks great. In fact, I used it on all my addons with background stars.

Thanks again!
Dave

[selden]

You are all quite welcome. I'm glad the technique can be extended to more colorful images. I haven't quite gotten that far yet myself.