Starship Asterisk*

The caption is very clear that the image is a composite of three exposures. That is normal photographic technique for any high dynamic range subject. HDR should not affect stars. Please zoom in to 100% and take a closer look. Stars are messed up due to the manipulation. Can you recognize any conste...

This is NOT an honest astrophotography. If you zoom in the image, you can see many manipulations, like patches with different size of noise, or star dots in different sizes. This means that, those patches come from different images. I guess such manipulation is to make the circular shape of the aur...

This is NOT an honest astrophotography. If you zoom in the image, you can see many manipulations, like patches with different size of noise, or star dots in different sizes. This means that, those patches come from different images. I guess such manipulation is to make the circular shape of the auro...