Thanks all for contributing, it's been great to see other people's attempts and hear comments on this
. At least I don't feel so bad about my attempt now
I hope no one minds, but in the end, of the attempts made, I think I like my original the best. I like the variety of colour in alpal's and Rick's, but in the end it's not the pink nebula's which are turning up pink. Rowland's is showing great fainter extends of the LMC coming out, but not the colour variation. Fact is, data isn't there to split the colours it seems.
I thought I had seen in the past unmodified DSLR attempts on such objects which surprised me as to their colour variation and pink nebulas. I think perhaps in the end they were using either modified DSLR or some combination of DSLR and specific spectrum data. It'll be interesting if I come across them again.