A 20 hour integration taken over the course of 5 nights in late October of last year (2025). I used an 81mm refractor telescope with a specialized hydrogen filter to enhance the ionization in the gas clouds. The nebula lies some 1500 light years from the earth and is appx 60-100 light years in diameter. To add some perspective to that distance, the Voyager spacecraft travels at roughly 35000 mph. At that speed it would take anywhere between 1 and 1.8 million years to cross the frame of this photo.

Scott Lord Northcentral Kentucky, USA