Originally inspired by Rat156, NGC 2467 is a target I originally shot over a year ago. I've revisited and reprocessed it with another 10 hrs or so of data gathered over several nights from the backyard.
In narrowband, to me it resembles a Morpho butterfly drifting in space. It's one DSO that seems to slip through the popular imaging cracks, but I think it's worthy of a second look.
Open to many forms of visual interpretation, some call it the Skull & Crossbones, others call it The Mandril and our own IIS member Placidus thinks it looks like Snoopy's Holiday! Clearly, it's not definitive
Located in Puppis, it includes areas where large clouds of glowing hydrogen gas and ionised oxygen incubate new stars, seems that it's a very active stellar nursery.
My version here is presented in a circle, hopefully adding a "telescope view" to the image - probably not everyone's cup of tea, but humour me and call it artistic licence!
Large version
here
Hope you like it, C&C welcome as always.