Sunday, February 12, 2023

Processing Comet and Stars using APP Starnet++ and photoshop

This blogpost is about how to get both the comet as the background stars processed sharp.
A video I used is the one from LuckyBudd : see this link 

What's needed, or at least, what I used :
    - AstroPixelProcessor (APP)
    - Starnet ++
    - Photoshop

1) APP
    a) Stack images of the comet using registration mode "Comet/one star" (Picture 1)
    b) Redo integration with "MAD" setting (Picture 2)
    c) Redo stacking using registration mode "normal" and restart integration (Picture 3)

2) Starnet++
    a) Remove stars using Starnet++ of Picture 3 (Picture 4)

3) Photoshop
    a) Load Picture 3 and Picture 4 and "layer" them together
    b) Use "Image", "Use Image" and substracted (Picture 5)
    c) Load Picture 2 and layer Picture 5
    d) Use "Layer", "Layer Style" and linear blending (Picture 6)

Edit Picture 6 as a end result.