Another version of the logo:

Creating the "stars" in Photoshop

• choose gradient tool
• set from white to black
• set mode as "lighten"
• set as radial
• make some intersecting balls
• go to menuitem "levels" (command-M)
• nip off the top most values of red and green to zero using the pencil tool
• in the green channel, convert from pencil to spline and grab the last handle on the curve
• exit levels
• what you should see is yellow balls with bright orange and red in the middle
• invert the picture
• now you have your stars

• Colonna MT, Bold, 100 point, anti-aliased, spacing -5
• make it as a selection layer
• make new paint layer
• select and fill with white
• deselect
• Gaussian blur: radius 4.2 (or so)
• select and delete.