[Shiraz (Ray)]

Couldn't get near Mike's beaut image, but was still pleased at the result. In particular, efforts to clean the optical system and suppress stray light seem to have paid off.

A lot of processing was required to control the dynamic range - and the stars and noise show the damage. Have also tried to ensure that the masking did not introduce "features" - but there may be some spurious structure and I intend to do a careful reprocess to check/correct. Also have some RGB and will tidy up the stars when the winter sets in and astronomy stops.

Used 6/7nm NB filters, with 6 hours Ha ( mix of 2 and 5 minute subs) and 3 hours of O3 (2m subs). 250/f4 and ASI1600, gain 100. Had more data, but all of the imaging was carried out with the moon up - the stuff I used was the highest-resolution/lowest-sky cull from a larger dataset. Seeing was about average at ~2.2 arcsec or thereabouts.

thanks for looking - advice on colour/processing welcomed. Regards Ray