Considering the lack of clear skies around here lately
and the fact that this image was composed from 10hrs of data collected over two nights, one with a 3/4 gibbous moon (last Sunday) and the other a 100% full moon (last night) in the sky and I use the broader 12nm bandpass Astronomiks...I am very happy with how this came together
There are some high contrast narrowband examples of this area out there that give a more solid blocky look to the nebulosity and they look good but I decided to process to keep a more subtle gaseous wispy look to the nebulosity for the Thackeray (Bok) Globules and Churchill's Cigar to float in while still hopefully keeping some of the 3D appearance that narrowband signal provides...? Of course I wanted some nice vibrant colour too
Worth noting that no darks or flats were used on this occasion nor did I use any noise reduction and very little sharpening was used...it was surprisingly easy to process actually.
Full Frame image
Churchills Cigar and Thackeray's Globules 100% resolution crop of the good bits
Thackeray's (Bok) Globules
Enjoy
Mike