Vulcanoid searchers need to collect data

It is important to remember that to do a Vulcanoid search one needs to collect data.  The normal image post-processing that one might do to clean up an image for submission to a magazine such as Sky & Telescope should not be done on your only copy of the data.

Image cleanup alters data and in some cases removes information.  The information that you lose could be the Vulcanoids that you are looking for!  Use Photoshop / Paintshop in a copy of the data if you must, but preserve  your original image data for Vulcanoids analysis.