[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by alpal

Yes - maybe try to make a fake luminance layer out of the Ha data.
Use curves on it to increase the contrast - exaggerate it a bit.
Also maybe sharpen it a little.

Try & blend it as a luminance but also soft light & other blending modes onto you final pic & see what happens.

I can give that a go but I have already done that in previous steps and discarded the Ha as luminosity layer as all it does is give salmon Ha areas and damage the colour saturation. Sometimes you can get a gain with it doing that. The other approach is to make a Ha+red layer and use that for the red channel or perhaps Ha + luminance layer as a luminance layer. I can experiment with these but not confident its going to go anywhere.

Originally Posted by alan meehan

Greg this is such a beautiful image very sharp indeed,and lovely colours
your time spent has been worth the effort
AL

Thanks Al. The crop works best.

Originally Posted by kustard

Oh very nice indeed

I like the Ha image too, you can really see the detail in the nebula.

Thanks for that. The Ha could have been sharper as I imaged it in 2x2 binning to improve the signal to noise ratio. Its quite a dim target really.
Greg.