The moon is half full but otherwise a break in the clouds and smoke allowed me to get out to the telescope. Calm air helped to give nice guiding and after tossing some early frames with not so dark background and four or five of the lowest scoring frames in Deep Sky Stacker left me with 3hr 12 minutes of 240 sec. sub frame data to integrate. Again as I have been doing lately I used the 2x drizzle function in stacking for cleaner resolution after downscaling in Photoshop.
4000 light years away and around 15 light years across, this is a star nursery area showing both emission and reflection nebula characteristics.
