Hi
Two LRGB versions - the first one is native scale and with muted colour - tried to match "science" images on the web. The other is higher contrast and with more saturation, but it had to be reduced to 80% scale to keep chroma noise and artefacts from being too annoying. The hotter version shows the star formation regions quite well - maybe will try to add some Ha to the full scale version in future to enhance the new star regions.
Mount tracking noise messed up the brightest stars and I did not take any care over them - concentrated only on the galaxy. None of the available software could handle the heavily polluted colour data (particularly the red), so needed to manually set gain and offset in each channel after stacking to get any sensible results. Roll on clearer skies
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thanks for looking. Appreciate any feedback - been messing around with this data so much I can't see the woods for the trees anymore. Regards Ray
200f4 Newtonian with RCC1
SX H694
EQ6 with 50mm guidescope
LRGB 47:60:42:52