RE: [APML] Southern Cross and Wide feild Milky Way

[Matt BenDaniel <matt@starmatt.com>]

Craig,

Yes, see:
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/mbendaniel/gallery/astro/auriga.html

In Photoshop, encircle the desired stars with elliptical marquees. Make sure they're feathered. Open a curves dialog and boost the brightness.   These tools are covered in the Photoshop documentation.

Matt

At 03:02 PM 1/29/2002 +1100, Craig McIntyre wrote:
>...Because the milky way is so rich in this part of the sky, it tends to over-dominate the stars of the cross and the pointers. What I would like to do is to achieve an effect similar to Akira Fujii's image of the cross and the pointers where those stars are easily distinguished but the background milky way is still rich and detailed.
> 
>Are there any suggestions on how to achieve this in processing the images. Naturally, shorter exposures skimp on the detail in the milky way and show the cross and pointers with a bit more contrast, but as I am yet to try stacking any images would I be able to get the effect I desire by stacking a short and long exposure together? Or are there any other processing 'tricks' that may help achieve this?
> 
>Craig.

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