Thanks for the exhaustive replay Bob,

Well, all I can say is that my processing steps are much much simpler than the ones you describe and I got lost a little bit along the way. While eventually how much saturation should be applied is a matter of personal tastes (and I do subscribe to your view of some excessively garrish star colours in a significant amount of DS imagery nowadays) I find that your image shows a biased pinkish hue all over the central bulge and some very brightly coloured H-alfa regions all araund the disk. Contrast this with much more muted tones in most of the stars of our galaxy.

Anyway, thanks again.

Andrea T.

Hi folks,

I reprocessed, starting from the original stacks. Here's the result and you can view the 4096 x 4096 pixel version here.

Bob.