Europa Loc: West Hills, CA

I processed the stars separately and had a lot of color in them. Somehow I lost the color and a bunch of the stars. But it was fun to play, maybe one of these days the sky will clear and I can shoot one of my own.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

I use a noise filter in my ancient Adobe Elements 12 program. I have it set at a >1< level (mildest) and it turns any hot pixels (red or blue), to white, so they disappear into the background as tiny stars.
Most of the other stars that may be hued as other than white hot (Like Beetlejuice) remain tinted or off-white.
That noise filter is one of my first run when Post Processing.

Yep, one of these nights hopefully the skies will be clear. But our "California Spring" is just around the corner when we water the hills for brush fire season and grow fuel.

Go Buckeyes!

PS: I did a redo of the IC443 Jellyfish last night because I got a window of clear skies.
There is more to this, but my little set-up can only get so much. (Like a soda straw view... LOL! )
No cropping by me. Have fun!
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Original tif file. I wanted to get more of the "tentacles", so repositioned the subject and again collected my image. I have a series of these, with this being the last one. IC443, 300 second subs, 50 images, 15,000 seconds total.

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Same, just processed and saved as a jpg for the web. Some tweaking of brightness, and auto sharpening. I try to keep these as "natural" as I can (whatever natural is...), No noise filtering so the red and blue hot pixels can be seen.

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