Thanks Marc! I like a lot of your work and the effort you put into your images. I also liked a lot of Octane's images for similar reasons but also because of what he was able to demonstrate out of the canon 40D.
I suppose my gripe is the obvious (but small) star trailing which is not making things pinpoint and if I want to image over say 1hr, I wasn't sure if DSS actually tries to "de-rotate" the images. Each 5 min frame looks ok but over 1hr it shows.
Anyway, thanks for your kind words and support. I am actually finding the colour not to be a problem to extract (dark skies maybe

) and I found out the "fade" tool in Photoshop via the tutorial which seems to do a nice job.
You should see one of my first images though this scope without the flattener and it reminded me of the Millenium Falcon going into warp

Cheers and you keep up the good work too Marc!
Darrin...