Great job Andy
at least for my eyes, this is probably your best image to date. The processing is very nice, stars look good and the colours and overall look maintains the look of an image of a deep sky astronomical object nicely....not arbitrary art
. You have stretched it hard to reveal the fainter extensions, so it is a little grainy at full res but at screen size it looks great
All that worrying about moving from a refactor, then the hickup with a silly RC
...you now have a great fast Newtonian, that does the trick
Mike