I was amazed to get this much detail without narrowband filters, this is just the result of light straight through to the 2600MC color camera. This took very little stretching to reveal the Ha and OIII details of this target. I tried both using starnet to stretch just the nebula without the stars, and stretching the whole image; I found stretching the whole image while softer, showed the fainter Ha nebulosity better. So I settled with whole image stretching for this result.
I was fortunate to catch during the imaging session at the darksite I found my focuser very close to crashing with the mount, as this was one of the first targets I took advantage of the built in rotater of my SVX102T scope. I found it necessary to refocus as things had moved around after rotating (I might've grabbed the wrong part of the scope to rotate). The scope's rotator was handy to better frame the target, (it was clipped) I settled for this framing because I felt I lost too much time dealing with the near crash, plate solving, and refocusing (it was a dark site after all!)
Here's the starless version too as a bonus:
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