So far I have spent days fiddling with this data trying to tame the halos around the brighter stars with little success. The best I have been able to do so far is exchange purple halos for white halos. At the moment I am attempting to remove the halos but preserve some of the star colours.
The data set:
Ha: 16x900s
OIII: 12x600s
SII: 8x600s
Synthetic Lum: 15 of mostly Ha but with a mix of SII and OIII, 15 lowest FWHM subs which have been SNR weighted and combined with Linear Clip. I did attempt to do a FWHM combine but ended up with tighter central stars, many of which had extended halos, they just didn't look right.
This is my attempt although the synthetic Lum that I have uploaded here is different (more bloated in the core) due to only using the best (lowest FWHM) 15 images as opposed to combining all 36 (in my first process).
I have done many more renditions of this but keep starting over
So, to everyone, go wild!