This was an interesting project to do and objects to capture. I worked capturing it over the course of 4 nights, two of which clouded out early and then I was able to get two complete nights of capture time. Seemed as though the editing took longer than the capture did. I guess that's not a new thing. This is the most integration time thus far that I've captured. In editing the image I felt my image was just lacking, I was comparing my results to what I was seeing from other shooters using similar equipment and found their images to be more colorful, where mine was just the red color that you get from the Ha signal. In reaching out to a good friend of mine here on astrobin, Jeff Kisslinger,
https://www.astrobin.com/users/Kisslija/, and with his help I was able to bring out some of the blue color of the OIII besides just the Ha red, There are a lot of good videos on YouTube that give you techniques on this very thing. I now believe I was wrong in thinking that my tri-band filter was just a light pollution filter, and that some of the color palettes available to narrow-band shooters are to some degree available to us that use OSC with the dual-band, tri-band and the quad-band filters. Given the right object, nebula for instance, With these techniques and tools in PixInsight I am able to extract the various other colors that are present in my photo that are hiding within the overwhelming signal from the Ha. Still need a lot of practice, but with everything in life, practice makes perfect, and I know I'll never be perfect in this hobby :-), I will definitely be applying these techniques to future images, to again up my game as it where in this crazy complicated, great and sometimes frustration hobby of astrophotography. Thanks Jeff and all the astrophotographers here for the valuable info and just being willing to share. I give credit where credit is due.
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