So last night I ran my LRGB. After dropping 3 images, I got this stack, and cropped out the stacking artifacts.
No other Post Processing was done. Due to UHH constraints, this image is in web .jpg format. Sorry.
But you are welcome to download and try your hand at processing.
Here it is.

20ea - 180 seconds (3 minutes)

By doing the 180s exposures I was pleased with the stars showing inside the Nebula. (Front, back, or wherever.)

20ea (avg) - 180s - L,R,G,B. Bias @.001, Darks @ 30s

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I do too, but I'm terrible at it.
In AP I use a filter wheel and the camera takes what it sees through that.

But your Leaves is beautiful!

Glad you enjoyed, Richard.
I think I probably over exposed for this. So the dust trails vanish in the glare.
I'm not sure what was going on with my guiding, but last night everything was working perfectly again.
There is so much going on between the equipment and the computer, sometimes I need to stop and start over.
And sometimes I need to completely shut down, then start from scratch to get things working right.
But more often than not, my soufflé doesn't fall down.
I invite you do download any of my images and process them for yourself. Unfortunately, I can't put up the better tif files because UHH doesn't allow the larger files.

It looks quite perfect, Linda.
I clicked on it and went to your Flickr page, then zoomed it up.
Love the grain in it and how the details just pop!
Great detail!

As an Astro photographer, and a processing minimalist, I enjoy reaching way out there with my Monaural camera to bring back various space anomalies.
Then do as little as possible to refine my images.
This is called The Dumbbell Nebula. And I took a series of images with different filters in the narrowband spectrum.
The images are stacked in a program and saved.
Then I will take them through Photoshop Adobe Elements 12 just to adjust where needed. This was cropped, then the brightness dimmed to bring out the details the glare was hiding.
In these days of much over processed images, I prefer to do as minimal as I can.
If you want to hurt your eyes, here is the circus version.

My nemesis, The Dumbbell Nebula.

The Dumbbell Nebula 09-24-2023.

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I'm a post processing minimalist.
So I'm not one to ask.
I like to see what the camera caught.

But I do like the composition of it. The foreground boat, the second fading, and the ghost boats in the fog.
I find it intriguing. Especially in the download and zooming in.
Very nice!

Very nice!
I would say your friend is absorbed.
Absorbed in what he is doing.

Beautiful, Jared!

I've never been there, but that looks like me standing up there fishing.

My nemesis.
Last night's victim. 10 years ago I wondered what would happen after I had imaged as many of the wonders available through my portal into the night skies.
Well, 10 years later (now) I still enjoy the challenge. Because in reality a lot has changed. I've changed, my equipment has changed, and of course the weather always has its variables. And the light pollution has gotten much worse here thanks to the ignorant management behind me of Condo prison farm.
So my images are different.
One of my first year favorites, I'm back in Black & White with a much better Monaural camera gathering much finer details than the previous years.
First is right out of ASI's stacking program, and second is after I gently massaged the original from the ASI Program.
I'm still a stickler for minimal processing. I simply adjusted the brightness down and it brought out the suttle details hidden in the glare.

I'm currently shooting my images at 300 seconds (5 minute). If there are no satellites, I use all of the 20 images.
20 X 300s, in HA7nm, SII, and OIII with 20 Darks @ 30s, and 20 Bias @ .001, and flats done with NINA Flats Wizard, linin cloth, at zenith in the early morning lighted sky.

Unfortunately, I cannot upload the tif files. UHH sez they are too big. But you are welcome to download if you would like.

Tonight will be the LRGB, D, and Bias. Same settings. I'll add them tomorrow.

Stacked in ASI software.

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Cropped, and adjusted in Photoshop 12.

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They are both excellent.
But if I was to be a judge, I believe I would pick the first. To me, on my display, I like the first better.
That won't get you a cup of coffee. It just my opinion. LOL!

To me, it looks like stars spewing out of the back side of a black hole.

Here's the image as it came out of the ASI program.
Unadulterated, uncropped, unfettered.
I think better.

OK, I showed you mine. Now you show me yours, mate.

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I'm confident yours will be much, much better, Marc.
Of course, tonight everything is working perfectly again.
I'm shooting my nemesis. The Dumbbell Nebula.

Had trouble with my first picked subject.
So hopped over to Andromeda and let'er run.

PHD2 did not want to behave. So I was relying on what I was seeing. More of an experiment than anything else.

Bias, Darks, and Lights stacked with ASI Studio. Narrowband only.
Touched up in PS12. Saved for the web. And plunked down here.

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Beautiful!

I can't help but wonder if we are looking at the other side of a black hole.
Spewing stars from the other side.

That looks like the area on Mount Pinos above Frasier Park.
They have a bunch of star parties there.

Found this oldie but a goodie:
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/331400-classic-star-party-at-mount-pinos-calif-cspamp4/

My tripod has never been extended. The 12" extension is more than plenty.