Thank you Russell and Ray. The past few months here have been just terrible and even getting one useable night was rare. In the case of NGC 6357, I basically had just one night to work on it before it was lost in cloud again. So I built this image with less than half the data I would normally want to even start with. So the data is very skinny, and as a result there is a penalty in processing, it just cannot be 'pushed' as hard before breaking down and losing its smoothness. A great low noise camera and a fast (f5.3) scope give me some advantage, but time is the big limitation.
I had run across Bob Franke's piece before, and did do some colour balancing on the way through, but I need to review the whole thing.
As Russel say's "NB is dealers choice", and my approach is not going to probbly ever look like the "Standard Model", but I do listen.
