LOL thanks Al. It was the first time i have processed this galaxy - and used Pixinsight to do it. I got the raw file from Al this afternoon and processed it after tea and emailed it to him - i think he liked it
it is a slight crop from the original framing due to the two nights effort, stacked in DSS with the overlapping crop feature in DSS. Brought into Pixinsight, i applied Dynamic background extraction to remove the gradient and to normalise the colour. then used the histogram to bring up the image, then applied a luminance mask (brought it down to protect bright core and central section and stars) with HDR wavelett transform tool, then removed the mask and applied ACDNR with a luminance mask protection (a bit of fiddling) and then applied the intensity transformation tool - colour saturation - then saved as JPG and sent to Al. Al did all the effort
