Regarding the possibility of a gradient I was looking at other pictures of the area and this one
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/a...e.php?a=101771 from David Trap shows the dark to the left light to the right ( it's reversed 180 from mine) that I was expecting when I took the picture. How much is gradient and how much is the LMC? Is it right to process it out just for a pleasing effect??