How time flies, yesireeee John ‘Snaebgnum’ aka Dude. Happy Astroversary ... I think we're roughly contemporaries in that regard. And jeeeeez hasn't there been some $ splashed out along the way for toys errr serious astro stuff ... is it n+1 ... or is it n+2
I dunno but let's not go down that rabbit hole lolz
Those are great images for a 1yo astroimager (surely you've been doing this for many years?) and light years ahead (see what I did there
) of my granddaughter's wonderfully random attempts to produce images with crayons ... just image what amateur astroimaging will be like when she's our age some 50+ years from now. The mind boggles. I do like the deep contrast in your mauve image but reckon the HOO(?) is seriously beautiful and I wouldn't call it
loud, I'd call it
proud 
Hardly the sort of image you'd expect from a 1yo astroimager ... how long have you really been doing this? (My '1 yo astroimager' comments are very TIC - I love your images.)
Btw, a long time ago in a place not too far away, I wrote numerous device drivers (and a bunch of other stuff) in C while an undergrad engineering student. Also did a lot of assembler code for the Zilog 80 (...remember that, the good ol Z80 :-). Those were the good ol days (questionable!) when you actually had to know *all* the hardware on the board(s) to be able to write efficient code for it.
Keep up the awesome work mate, looking forward to Astroversary 2, 3, 4, 5 ... 25 ... 50