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This was taken on a warm breezy night last week with a bit of burning off in the area so not the best conditions. The images after the meridian flip had to be rotated about 0.3 degrees, The scope is level, (something I can control), so I wonder what happened. I also have three questions about the processing side for any willing to offer some advice...

Despite using calibrated blacks and the pixel filter in Maxim, I am still getting a lot of hot pixel trails. Any thoughts?

When using colour balance to tweek colours in PS, is it better to click off the 'preserve luminance' option?

Finally, my last 2 images have had a faint split colour background tint, the left half of the image red and the right blue. Am I pushing the saturation too far?

L 45xmin RGB 20x1min each Stacked in Maxim. LRGB combined and cleaned up in PS