We were up in the mountains for the Perseid shower and saw some fun shooting stars. To clean the photos up a bit, you might try selecting the stars and the shooting star trail (yeah, it may take a while), then inverse the selection. Duplicate the layer twice (so you have three). Then use some heavy handed gaussian blur to the noise (the part that wasn't selected). Arrange your layers so the stars are on top, then delete the non-stars on that layer. So now you have a blurry layer with little noise and with the star layer on top (that is stars and nothing else). The original layer is sitting at the bottom. You'll have to fiddle with the colors a bit to get it right, but this might work. I've been experimenting on this photo using similar techniques with some success, trying to get a print of it (finally):
Keep looking up! Nice shots (I love the stormy ones!)
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