M45 Pleiades - so near yet so far

[Pompey Monkey]

I've been working on processing last year's LRGB M45 data from my rather light polluted site. I'm hoping to use it for a Christmas present framed print. I ve been following various tutorials online and the overall look is very close to what I had in mind.

I am not unhappy with the end result, as it represents a significant step forward in my processing skills...

...However, there are a number of things that I'd like to improve, not least the colour bleed from the redder stars. Any ideas?

[tomato]

Sorry I can’t help you with the processing tip, I still have a lot to learn in that department, but I will say your image is certainly worthy of framing, I love the framing and contrast with the (background?) red and yellow stars, they sort of frame the Pleiades cluster.

[wornish]

Very nice image.

One way to reduce the colour bleed is to use deconvolution on the Luminance stack before combining with the RGB .

Good tutorial here.