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Thank you all, I am really happy with how this one came out. I still need to really dial in the reducer for spacing and tilt as a bit of pixel peeping will reveal, but the slightly wonky stars in the corners are not intrusive enough to offend me. The combination of the ASI2600 (APS-C) and 80mm+ reducer gives a really nice FOV, I have found it to frame familiar objects in a way that lets me present them a little differently to usual so I try to do that.
Nik, that was SHO mapping of the NB data but a fair bit of work in Photoshop to reassign the resulting colours to something more pleasing. I have stayed away from tricolour NB until now as I always find the resulting palette fairly unpleasant in an RGB based image and I didn't have the skills honed to use selective colour to adjust them to something more appealing. I guess I don't have that excuse any more.
Mike, yes, I thought long and hard how to present the background, there is quite a bit of widespread HA and Oiii, less so Sii and I really wanted to have it showing in the image. I ended up needing to shoot a couple of extra nights to get more Oiii or it just turned in to a noisy mess.
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