Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  IC 2763  ·  M 65  ·  M 66  ·  NGC 3623  ·  NGC 3627  ·  NGC 3628  ·  The star 73Leo
Leo Triplet, Marcel
Leo Triplet
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Leo Triplet

Leo Triplet, Marcel
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Leo Triplet

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The Leo Triplet.

First time i have imaged these 3, happy with the results... except for the stars.

The Full Spectrum mod adds a "softening" filter on the subframes, which i dont like. Time to get the right filter...

Correcting these bloated stars is impossible or just out of my skillset.

I tried correcting them in PS...

I used the color range selection tool and adjusted until most of the bloated stars would be selected, expanded the selection, smoothed the selection, used the minimum filter, used fade.

Didnt work in multiple attempts.

Then i tried the StarShrink plugin but that didnt work either.

After that i decided to make a star mask, used both the minimum filter method, fade, and the starshrink plugin... that didnt work either. So i proceeded to do my usual workflow and ragequit because of the stars.

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Leo Triplet, Marcel