>>2613974Normally, most people would finalize their image by "stretching". Essentially, you take a small ranges of brightnesses within your image, and blow them up so they accompany the entire range of brightnesses of your display. I like to do things differently, though. I apply a mild Bloom filter to the image, then, using a tonemapper, I render out the image. This has the advantage of capturing the brightness of very bright stars (that would get clipped with a simple stretch) while still showcasing the dimmer stars.
I suppose the point I want to make is that astrophotography is rarely ever a point-and-click endeavor, and in many ways, it's an art form. This is especially true for truly dim deep space objects, where False Color is frequently used to demonstrate and illuminate gas clouds and regions of a specific chemical.
