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Processing notes for all images:

CCDStack is my ccd image processing program of choice (I now use MaxIm DL only for controlling / guiding the ST- 8 / telescope).

The general CCDStack processing steps for all images are:

Calibration, bloom removal, alignment, normalization, STD Sigma reject, sum or median combine, DLP processing, 25 to 50 iterations of  Positive Constraint deconvolve and save as a 16 bit scaled TIFF

 

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 is my final processing program.

Typical Photoshop steps are:

Curves, GradientXTerminator if needed,  clean up (stars, blooms, defects, etc.), cropping when needed, selective enhancement with levels, curves, unsharp mask, or brightness/contrast, and save as JPEG for web

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