[brajoh (John bradshaw)]

Andy, thanks for the constructive comments -- very obvious when you say so about the stars -- I have a bit of an addiction for Autohistagram for getting contrast so I'm sure you're right about the clipping - not sure how to check for that myself.

I reprocessed with star removal, read Ha only stars (all white but at least sharp) and reprocessed from preprocessed masters using NBRGB script to get what I feel is a much more pleasing colour balance with still a focal point at the "face". I would be grateful for your comments again.