Fun with BlurXTerminator (Alex Roberts)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Monoceros (Mon) · Contains: NGC 2237 · NGC 2238 · NGC 2239 · Rosette A · Rosette Nebula · The star 12 Mon

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Fun with BlurXTerminator

The following comments are unsolicited and I have no affiliation with Russell Croman.

With all the buzz I've heard about BlurXTerminator, I needed to give it a try. After installing the 30 day trial version into PixInsight, I simply applied the default settings and was stunned at the immediate results. I literally gasped. Overall sharpness and star size are much improved without looking overprocessed. BlurXTerminator makes me want to go back and reprocess everything I've posted on Astrobin. While I won't actually do that, I'm certainly going to reprocess a few of my favorites and repost. BlurXTerminator lives up to the hype and deserves the terms "game changer" or "killer app". While I have no affiliation with Russell Croman, my hat is off to him for his fine work. If you haven't tried BlurXTerminator, you're missing out!

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