Alex, thanks for this. The image you have created is much more akin to what I was hoping to get. You’ve managed to bring out the tail in lots more detail and there is structure visible within it, without blowing out the nucleus. I can still still the impact poor flats are having on the data, but I am really impressed. I’ve made an animated gif to show the image you could get out of my data vs the image I got out. Given it is the same data, I think there is something you are doing in the stacking process and in the post-processing step which I am not doing. Maybe sometime I can watch what you do and learn from that. I am so grateful for your time.
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