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 Over a
            quarter of an arcminute wide, this exciting combination of red
            emission and blue reflection nebulosity is difficult to photograph
            because of the nearby bright variable star Gamma Cassiopeia,
            which varies from 1.6 to 3rd magnitude. The difficulty is that
            with such a brilliant star just outside the field, bright rays
            and artifacts usually wash out the entire image. I spent quite
            some time on this image removing such unwanted light scatter.

            
I was impressed
            at how low of a noise this image was at -30C, no noise reduction
            was needed on this shot. 

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera:  SBIG 10XME NABG with Enhanced Cooling
Guider: SBIG ST4
Exposure:  LRGB = 60:20:20:20 (RGB Binned 2x2)
RGB Combine Ratio:  1: 1.05: 1.11
Filters:  AstroDon RGB Tricolor
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = 6 arcsec (Maxim DL - 10min subframe), Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  45 F
CCD Temperature:  -30 C
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL,  Photoshop, PixInsight, CCDOps Debloomer.
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