Orion and the Running Man

[jacko61]

Here's last Thursday's attempt at the Orion Nebula and surroundings.  3 hours of 180 second subs taken through a WO ZS73 on my ASI2600MC pro.  captured and processed in APT,DSS,Startools, STarnet and GIMP.  Whilet I'm happy with the nebula, I'm really struggling to get the stars anywhere near some of the results other folk get. I've tried a couple of methods to seperate stars and nebula but whenever I merge the two layers in GIMP the stars always look as if they're painted over the top of the image.  More research needed I think.  

Graeme