m4 reprocess

[cyan tinsel]

45 mins of integration bortle 5
10” goto dob
uranus c
uv/ir cut

yes i know the stars are somewhat oversaturated

[dusk turret]

I really like this

[river sluice]

I honestly kinda like the slightly oversaturated stars, adds a nice little touch of color to the image, and enhances overall visibility; it's much clearer what color the stars are when saturated like this.

and the stars that are naturally white don't get saturated, since there's no color in them to saturate in the first place, so they don't end up looking weird by the method of processing.

[cyan tinsel]

yeah my previous one looked like this

[river sluice]

Looking towards the center of the cluster, I can't tell if it's just the sheer number of stars overlapping each other, or if there's visual artifacting in the center of the cluster, some of the stars appear to blur into each other, almost reminiscent of Ai upscaling causing strange misshapen details.

[cyan tinsel]

blurx lol

[river sluice]

Ohhhhh ok

[cyan tinsel]

kinda does that with globulars

[river sluice]

yeah that'll do it lol

I don't think it takes away too much from the image though, that is unless you care enough about it for it to be a bother. Still looks really pretty!

[slow skiff]

Thats really nice, I think the saturation is perfect. About what focal length was this?