Update:
I took into consideration what Mike Sidonio mentioned about the artificial halo surrounding the object. I went and looked through my preprocessed data files and noticed that the individual RGB files had "ABE" in their names! I had used PixInsight's ABE rather than carefully-placed DBE samples. The haloing was evident in my individual RGB ABE masters when I opened the files up and had a proper look at them.
So, I just spent a few minutes tonight re-doing the data and using DBE instead of ABE. The end result is a flat image that looks even greater than the original process.
This is straight out of PixInsight and needs to go to Photoshop for final processing.
I was creating drizzle data and I inadvertantly trashed all my green data, with no backups! So, I did the traditional upsample of RGB by 2, instead of being able to drizzle it; drizzle has given me amazing results with other data sets I've been working with. Oh, well; I'll just have to recapture this next year.
I might be on to something with this one.
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I've also added the image underneath the image in the original link for direct comparison.
Cheers.
H