Trevor, a request.
how easy is it to say take 10 or 15 shots at say 60sec or even 120 secs and then say a 10 really short ones at an exposure time so that the trap stars are not burnt out.
That way we can start to stack em to get rid of noise, and thus be less agressive with the darkening and also have nice definition of the trap.
This is all based on
http://www.astropix.com/HTML/J_DIGIT/COMP2.HTM and
http://www.astropix.com/HTML/J_DIGIT/LAYMASK.HTM
If you don't mind taking them, there seems to be a lots of guys appreciating the opportunity to test their processing skills on what are very good images!!
I can put zipped up images on my webserver in larger image sizes so we have better quality images to start the processing off and guys can download from there.
These images are a pleasure to work with: Thanks!!