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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
I see what Rich is saying too Doug, he has said similar to me on occassions  . Your shot does look a bit monochrome red, it would look more pleasing if the blues were more influential, which is pretty much what Richard is saying..?
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Spot-on regarding that comment on the Blues.
In fact you will find that when you use Ha for luminance or even Ha + Red that you kill off blue reflection nebulosity
Jim Thommes reprocessed a nice image of M8 at my suggestion that he took and ditched the Ha luminance and found that a patch of blue reflection nebulosity appeared in his image that had heretofore been attenuated so badly by the luminance layer as to be imperceptible.
That work was fully documented on the Astromart Forums during April or May if I recall correctly.