If you save down one of the images and up the gamma a little, you can see a tremendous amount of detail. Far more than could practically be done by hand, and af

If you save down one of the images and up the gamma a little, you can see a tremendous amount of detail. Far more than could practically be done by hand, and afaict, more than PyEphem has in its catalogue of "bright stars". I suspect he used something like Stellarium and then ran the images though some filters.