Many thanks. No I didnt use any noise reduction. However I now reprocessed it, adding a 2nd 400 sec. shot at ISO 200, stacked them, dark subtracted and then used Noiseware community edition to smooth out noise.
http://www.users.on.net/~josiah/temp...%20deepsky.jpg
I uploaded it as same file name so the link in my first post will lead to this new improved version
