Very interesting Dave and Mike
You might like to be at Star Stuff II next Sun 8 July, to hear David's take on this sort of thing, here is the abstract for his presentation
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11:15am – Dr David Malin
Fake photographs, False Colour – The ethics of photographic image manipulation are ill-defined, and any working definition depends largely on the genre of the images and the intent of their creators. Astro-photographers are the most versatile and knowledgable of image makers, but are faced with the fundamental problem that they are generally unable to see the colours of the objects they acquire. I intend to explore this murky topic a little and suggest some guidelines, implicitly recognising that astro-images reveal an unseen part of the natural world whose colours are unseen, but not unknown.
Both globs look ok to me Dave, I'd perhaps push the saturation a tad more but they look fine as is too
Mike