I'm done agonizing over this. It's not perfect and it needs more data, that I’m not going to get this season. So, I MMT’d the shit out of it. In the end I captured the "feel" I wanted for this target.
M78 HaRGB.
WO Z81, ZWO ASI533MC-Pro, ES Exos2-GT PMC8 and Orion Atlas EQ-G
Baader UV/IR Cut, Optolong L-extreme.
223x 300s (18.6 hours) RGB, 49x 600s (8.2 hours) HOO.
Stacked in PixInsight, Star Alignment, Dyn Crop, DBEx2, MMT, PCC, BN, SNCR, add Ha, Arcsinh, HTx3, Curves, TGV Chrominace, LHE, UnsharpMask
Darktable: watermark, vignetting, color zones, velvia, color contrast, tone curve, color balance rgb, astrophoto denoise.
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