ASTRO: M51 reprocessed

Friends are telling me my posts of late aren't propagating to them. Not one got my post of the Hercules Galaxy Cluster and only a couple got the triple asteroid shot. Half got one or the other of the Hind's Variable nebula shot. Only one got both versions. Yet all made it the Space Banter website that mirrors this group.
http://www.spacebanter.com/forumdisplay.php?f=25

So I signed up and am trying posting through it. Maybe this will get through to more news servers. For some reason I had a heck of a hard time getting it to upload an image for posting. I've been trying all day and now it appears to work. But I had to use my wife's XP machine. Maybe it doesn't like W2K.

When I registered to post it wouldn't allow me to use my name so not sure what will appear in the name field. Probably my user name. I tried several based on my name but none were allowed either. Too common I suppose.

Anyway this is the same M51 I posted last year but completely reprocessed. I never was happy with the color balance and noise in the first attempt. I now am better at color balance and digging into the noise so decided with all the clouds to give it another try.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=6x10', RGB =2x10', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick