Thx Duncan and Alex.
Yeah mate im still striving to understand this colour channel business - In std weightings it came out a brown you'd find in a babys - well you know. I pumped the red on one and tried dropping the blue and green on another - I forget which this is - to try for redder dust cloud. OSC used to be so easy in retrospect. Might try a complete recombination from scratch and see how it goes - I agree that reflection nebula should be a lot bluer (and maybe the background sky).
Anyway it beats the winter olympics for passing the night (and that froma skier

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Mark