M81 M82 Saturday morning from Beckenham

[MarkS]

... application of the star rounding plugin has resulted in the non-roundness of some of the stars ...

Doesn't sound like a very useful plugin!

[The Thing]

Doesn't sound like a very useful plugin!

It could be very useful - but it has a lot of sliders to play with and some non-obvious captions. But it does play with your stars in real time so you can see the effects. Better to start with round stars though!

[Mike]

What's the point of a star rounding plug-in if you need to start with rounded stars to ebing with?

[The Thing]

Latest attempt. Now has 1 hour of subs. Processed in Deep Sky Stacker and then GIMP. Darks, flats and bias frames applied. Getting better

[MarkS]

Dunc,

That looks really dim on my PC - I can't see any detail.

Mark

[The Thing]

Mark, On my PC and laptop it looks dim but OK. How does the previous image look to you? My screens are calibrated using Panatone Colorvision. Maybe I am dimming them down too much to darken the sky.