Thanks Jayson. Yeah, seems like there are a few good youtube channels on this stuff. I've been going back and watching the astrobackyard previous episodes. His website is pretty good too with writeups to go along with some of the topics (and not just all videos).

I agree that pixinsight is definitely a different workflow. I tried it out on this shot actually and thought I had better results than using deep sky stacker and photoshop. Although I did do some tweaks in photoshop after most of the processing done in pixinsight. I followed along step-by-step with another youtube video by Nico from nebula photos where he processed an image of M42 Orion Nebula (Orion Nebula (M42) with a DSLR, Start to Finish, Pt. 2a - PixInsight - YouTube). That worked pretty well, but not sure I'd be able to do all the steps on my own or really have any idea what other tools pixinsight offers.

Definitely a challenge, but honestly the learning curve is fun!

Stephen