Best Sky Blending techniques??

[RossCKelly]

Hi Tom, Yes banding is also a problem, however I had taken this and the issue with the darker "striping" to be two aspects of the same problem which I had attributed to the stitching process. There's definitely a couple of areas where the sky has darker patches, theres one about half way up but the banding you describe is exacerbating the effect for me overall. I find the patches easier to observe when i scroll the image slowly up and down the screen. The motion helps somehow.
Thanks Again for the info