I just thought I would give credit where required (can you spot the academic here). The idea for deep imaging in this region came from Rogelio Andreo
http://blog.deepskycolors.com/
He has some amazimg stuff on his site and what is even more amazing is if you look at his progression over 2 years if you compare his older images to new ones. Talk about going ahead in leaps and bounds
Thanks again for the positive replies but I thought I ahd better give this guy credit for the original idea
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