Well Paul, I recon that's pretty neat actually, lovely soft nebulosity, it has depth, the core area is handled very well and the subtle colour is nothing to be worried about as it's perhaps a preference thing anyway, it looks quite nice in fact, even to this colour saturated junky
The lovely diffraction spikes set it off nicely too.
I hear you, at the end of the day getting out is
at least 50% of the fun and if you grab even a half decent image the whole experience was worth it IMO - I'm with ya buddy
Mike