Submitted by marzulloj on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 6:53pm
I think they are blue because the exposure took one hour and twenty minutes in total. The scope was going slowly out of focus due to temperature shift. Since blue was the last exposure, the blue image had the more bloated stars. When I combined this resulted in a blue halo/cast around every star.
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Wow
on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 3:54pm
Super
Why stars are so Blue/Cyan?
why so blue
on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 6:53pm
I think they are blue because the exposure took one hour and twenty minutes in total. The scope was going slowly out of focus due to temperature shift. Since blue was the last exposure, the blue image had the more bloated stars. When I combined this resulted in a blue halo/cast around every star.
min filter
on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 2:53pm
Select the stars
apply min filter
fade the effect
Will be a LOT less bloated
Try only for the B channel 1st