Another winter gem but not often imaged, this fabulous colourful red and blue bit of sky is located in one of the claws of Scorpius, not far from the more well known Rho Ophiuchus dust cloud around Antares. It combines lots of faint dusty blue reflection nebulae (Vdb99), spread across the field like spider web, with an extensive field of faint red H-alpha emission nebula (Sharpless 2-1).
The autoguiding was superb aaall night, both nights, with the guide star seldom deviating more than 0.2 arc sec (at the limit of Astroarts autoguiding resolution of 0.05pix), and my mate Attila brought his awesome 3 inch achromat out and we had a ball observing with it for several hours while the FSQ imaged, incredible how much fun can be had and what you can see with just a 3 inch scope!
....oh and there was beer
involved
This is a true colour LHaRGB image
Sharpless 2-1/Vdb99 (click on image and scroll around with your cursor)
The full frame full res image is
here
Hope you like it
Mike