Interesting comment Marcus. I’m quite fascinated with that point where the image is both captivating for photographic reasons and just the sheer amazement that this thing in space is real! Ideally they coincide of course, although for me the processing is about bringing out what is there as a kind of observation of the object, or showing what I think is amazing about the thing. This certainly leads to distortions and probably demonstrates my own limitations in understanding the object itself. I reprocessed this to make the colour much more vibrant, but more for the sake of trying to show the various diagonal dark dust lanes which cross the scene, parenthesizing the Wolf.
Astrobin:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/3g2cxw/M/