I had bought and used this program a few months back. It is awesome, but your video is epic! This makes it so much more than I had before. Thanks. Again, looking forward to getting out into the New Mexico desert in another month to catch the Milky Way above an ancient Pueblo village. Should be an amazing trip. Cheers!
Awesome video John. I love starXterminator and I've been using it a bit also for these nebulas etc during the summer season here in OZ. Really well explained mate.
Dude 🤯 I have watched heaps of your videos and not sure how I missed this one 😅 will definitely be giving this one a go, I have been struggling with flat milkyway shots and this looks like it could make the world of difference 👌 thanks so much for your amazing channel 👊
Awesome mate! You just saved me a bunch of time re writing part of the manual! 😂😂 You need to come for a visit too, have some killer locations picked out up here.
Excellent video and awesome results on the Milky Way.............have you tried this plugin on nebula photos such as the Seagull, or Flaming Star? Would like a better feel for how it would work with something like that as it seems to be a much better work flow before purchasing.
there are two star separation programs. I use them for DSO...never thought to try on my normal astro. Star exterminator is the best of the two i have . there is also a star program that adds creative stuff like colour and flare etc very cool for DSO
dude awesome. i used another one but found it better out of the box for deep sky, where the stars occupy more pixels. it didn't do GREAT for wide field but i'll give this one a try. Thanks so much for sharing, man!
@@johnrutterphotography yeah! that's what I tried. I think if someone knew all the parameters or the program it could be good, but that's not what I'm after. this one seems plug and play. like you said, definitely worth $60 for the flexibility it brings
That is so cool. You should have a bucket more sub's. Thanks... Do you use the sky replacement feature in photoshop? I mean do you blend you're landscapes with you're sky images?
Thanks Trevor, I don't utilise the replacement feature itself but I do shoot my skies with a tracker which means needing to blend a static foreground in, I just do it manually.
Another use of starXterminator comes to mind. When I am out people who are shooting the milky way for the first time, they might not have big apeture glass, or a tracker, and will be shooting higher isos, and / or their camera is older and noiser at these higher isos. Seems like a good option for them to remove the stars, then run their regular denoiser of choice, then add the stars back to the denoised image. I will experiment with this. Could give clean results with f3.5 kit lenses.
If images need noise reduction it is the perfect time to apply reduction when the stars are removed, I haven't tried it with a noisy camera but I have used this technique a few times and it works great!!
I like your videos, they are very informative. I do have one suggestion. Please normalize the volume between the voice and the music, the music is too loud.
quick question sr I bought this program yesterday but the only difference I perceive is that my program says noise and yours says star but in the images they do not have any change. they have two diferentes program? noise and star
