[avandonk]

Thanks for the comments folks. Scott the reason all the stars have colours is because of the HDR process.Hagar guiding a FL of 300mm with a 1250mm scope also helps to keep the stars pinpoint much to my surprise. This also shows how good the lens is. Far better than I thought.

I will get more data when this region is higher and above most of the light pollution. You can get an idea of what is really there from the image below. This was processed to get colour and what detail was there for the very dim dark dust cloud.

This is what is good about astrophotography, no image no matter how good is the final one. You can always do better.

By the way the dark dust and gas clouds are what you and I and all you see around you were eons ago. Before that they were stars.

Carl Sagan told me a long time ago that we are all children of the stars.

Bert