Thanks for the comments guys i was pleasantly surprised by how crisp the galaxy turned out after processing.
Geoff
Iforgot to mention i did take darks/flats and bias worked well for my luminescence data but i still get some bad colour noise and gradients with my RGB.
I think now it might be more to do with the way im stacking and per-processing with CCD stack auto stretching DDP.
I will try my best later to clean it up and produce a colour image.
Mike
Your NGC 1512 does look a little similar closeup though that top arm in your image is massive! spiraling what looks like a huge distance from the core.
BTY I really would like to be able to get the level of vibrance from my galaxy attempts as yours well balanced very nice.
