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Like I said, it's frightening what you can produce these days with amateur stuff. That M45 image shows the Merope nebula better than most I've seen from people who have done it for years.
One note, go back and reprocess Orion a bit. The Running Man nebula should be more blue white, like Merope. I know that a full color CCD in a SLR camera can be hard to deal with (they all have color bias, depends on the chip maker), whereas 4 color filter work with a B&W camera is truer.
The bluer nebula is behind the stellar cluster, and is reflecting the blue/white color that the young hot stars are emitting. The red nebula is Hydrogen, and is actually fluorescing from the energy of the stars within. So, see if you can get the two nebula to be two distinct colors, I'm concerned that you pushed the reds a bit too far trying to get good color out of M42.
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