Removing stars from a deep-sky nebula target
Expert processing tips to enhance your astrophotos
With the exception of targets like open clusters, stars are generally not the main feature of astro images. In fact, their presence can hinder us from teasing out nebulae and similar objects of interest. While some programs, like Photoshop, offer techniques to partly get around this, a new plug-in makes it much easier. In this article, I will look at the benefits of using StarXTerminator.
The plug-in StarXTerminator, by Russell Croman, has been trained to
