Starship Asterisk*

Jay, Thanks for the reply I thought it would be time consuming. I tried a very simple diffraction spike removal on a Pleiades image http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060109.html and it took about an hour so I can appreciate the time needed. Nice images though Silly me - I hadn't thought about how ...

I realize that it may not be entirely "scientifically honest", but I believe that it would still be beneficial if APOD would "clean up" photos of distant deep sky objects by removing the foreground, and therefore irrelevant, stars from those photos. In my opinion, the foreground...

I realize that it may not be entirely "scientifically honest", but I believe that it would still be beneficial if APOD would "clean up" photos of distant deep sky objects by removing the foreground, and therefore irrelevant, stars from those photos. In my opinion, the foreground ...