Orion's Belt and Sword

[gorann]

On 24/03/2021 at 01:24, emyliano2000 said:

Thank you! I usually reduce the opacity so it doesn't stand out that much. I probably forgot to do it for this one. 

 

The halos are generated with the StarSpike Pro ad on in photoshop and for star reduction, I did use starnet in pix to create a mask and with that mask I used the EZ star reduction script which seems to work very well. On top of that I used the Ha stack as luminance a few times but only at 15%. I think I might've used the star reduction action from Noel Carboni's astro tools too. 

Emil

 

Thanks Emil for enlighten me on the existence of EZ Star Reduction. As you say it works very well. I find it better than any other method I have tried and have now used it on several of my "old" images to suppress the star field and allow the nebulosity to shine.

[emyliano2000]

1 hour ago, gorann said:

Thanks Emil for enlighten me on the existence of EZ Star Reduction. As you say it works very well. I find it better than any other method I have tried and have now used it on several of my "old" images to suppress the star field and allow the nebulosity to shine.

I'm glad it helped. A friend told me about it a while ago and I've been using it with great success on a lot of my images

Emil

[Steorra]

It's so dam sharp. Great image