Thanks Trevor, multiweb and Jo.
We were pretty pleased with the detail compared with previous attempts with the unmodded camera.
Halos are interesting. Here is a link to what looks a truely excellent image - but still with halos.
http://www.astrolab.be/astroref/Chuc...0da%5B1%5D.jpg
Not saying this really compares to our effort and certainly there is a bit of faint blue chromatic abberation in my image. Maybe narrowband helps but perhaps even then you can still get a halo.
Not sure if it is partly due to lens reflections or something similar - perhaps someone knows why.
Cheers
David