Hey thanks guys
...err?..and NO you can't have my Starfire
...grrrrrr
..one day it will come out again....
As I said this was just a fill-in last little grab image set at the end of a night. You all know how much I loath artificial smoothing, in this case the effect of smoothing out the colour noise looked fake and/or removed the vibrancy and to me looked worse than leaving the slight noise in there
...just sit back from your screen a little and you can hardly notice it
I think some of you with the luxury of one forget...
I DON"T HAVE AN OBSERVATORY 
and you have seen my massive kit set!!! so I can't easily just go out and get more data, this makes doing long multi session images very difficult 
...hence I am hoping a 70, 14 14 14min LRGB shot with 12" of aperture at F3.8 (as opposed to 6" at F8.3) will make all the difference...
Cheers
Mike