So arrrrr...when is the mono camera coming Marc? It is your answer to addressing the SII woes, unless of course you're comfortable quadrupling your expose time on a OSC (a little exaggerated, but you get the drift). Pleasing or should I say interesting result with oil painting like tones which shall be named Marc's palette - an alternative to the Hubble palette.
You should try clipping masks some time as it provides incredible flexibility in mapping the colours. You don't need to use the default colourisation hue such as 230 for blue or 120 for green. You can also alter the colour intensity per mapped channel including saturation and lightness. Fred provided a "how-to" clipping mask link in your other thread on
Narrowband processing info. Subsequently, this technique originated not by Ken, but that of Dr.
Travis A. Rector and his colleagues, who processes much of the data from the STSci (HST) and Gemini telescopes. It is not only used to map narrowband colours, but also traditional RGB through pro filters. I however have only used the technique for narrowband - with good results.
. Now...you're not going all Star Trek on us are you? 
The Orion mob are the bad guys.
Please tell me it was hailing in Sydney too ... 
