I got the scheme I want for the sky. Looks great, very... Starry Night meets Aurora Borealis. But it still looked wrong. Then I checked over a few settings aaand... viola. The whole thing was in 72pixel/inch as opposed to the 300pixel/inch I used for the first page. I gotta refine the entire page now, but at least I'm getting somewhere now! I don't want to put a deadline on any of my projects, but this chapter *should* be done next week. If I have time I'll redo the title page with the improved pixel count as well.
EDIT: I vastly underestimated the amount of information in this chapter and overestimated my ability to balance work, social life and working on this. I am putting in about 1-2 hours daily, so it is getting done slowly but surely. Eventually I'll have this all balanced out, I'm sure.