Good grief I think I'm 6+ pages behind on all the "new" posts; I'll never catch back up! But had to log in to give congrats on this fine image.
One of my favorite targets, and which I never manage to get right myself. Leaving most or all of the starfield is also right down my alley. That really gives the image life and, to me, makes it so much more realistic, even though of course this is all processed astrophotography with all our tricks employed.
The RGB stars are nicely done too. Probably a lot milder than I would have done, but that could be a good thing. Lots of stars, hints of proper color, but still allowing the main target to get due attention.
All except 52 Cyg, which can be a terror in the best of cases. It is a little too bad it is bleached out from all its orange-red goodness.
Because it is so prominent a feature, it could possibly be amenable to an extra, custom, manually-masked layering of its RGB data, at the same mild level as all the other RGB stars, to get the right hue. With sufficient fuzz and as long as it doesn't muck up the nearby filaments. That would strike me as more corrective touch-up (because otherwise it doesn't match the color schemes of this RGB-duo mashup) than being concerning as mask painting or whatever.
Sweet pic nonetheless.
