Description:
Increased the detail a bit, dialed back the core a bit more, and fixed the ugly artifact that was present on the top-left of several of the stars.
That artifact shows up on most of my images, but only if I stack with PixInsight, not if I use APP. I'm thinking it's a symptom of the tilt I seem to have in my Z73. There's probably a process I could use to fix this in PI, but I used the following approach in PS to do it:
1. If the artifact was minimal, I just used the smudge tool to push the bright star center out, then carefully smudged in small arcs until it looked natural.
2. If the artifact was strong, I created a round selection centered on the star, copied it, pasted it into a new layer, rotated the later 180 degrees, made a rectangular selection over the area of the artifact, created a layer mask, and aligned it with the move tool. Finally, I used the smudge tool to clean up the result of this.
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