After looking at all the M42 great repros posted around and learning from
Louie's wonderful video tuts it prompted me to do something about my latest shot last night. Current weather helping too of course
I did a bit of noise reduction with Louie's
masking technique, and also increased the core saturation and contrast ( from his
tutorials also so you can blame him

). I think it actually works really well and I like this version better.
Bigger version
here. [1.8MB]
Hope you enjoy the shot, M42 is the new M8 I hear.
PS: Got rid of green cast.