This has always been one of our absolute favourite objects because of its visual appeal. We've always seen the face as that of a chef busy at the wok, with clouds and clouds of steam and smoke (and noodles) flying out behind the hair.
The image is a partial mosaic, with 24 hrs from the last few nights, plus 8 hrs from 2015.
Full sized image here.
We wanted to make sure we had enough OIII and in particular SII to get the faintest bits right, and to have enough data to do some (very gentle) decon and sharpening without amplifying grit.
The chef's face is of great interest because it is largely composed of a very thin, strong, well-demarcated SII shock front. This seems to us to be a very rare thing. On the same topic, the magical rings of steam and smoke at the very left of the image are interesting if not actually puzzling in that they contain a lot of SII (think star-guts from previous supernovas) but very little OIII.
The sharp eyed will also see a large blue and gold kingfisher in left profile at the very top of the image, sitting on a twig, between said rings of steam and the back of the chef's head. There is also a large but worn-out teddy-bear occupying the lower half of the image directly below the chef's head.
Hubble palette: Red: 14 hrs SII, Green: 9 hrs H-alpha, Blue: 13 hrs OIII. All in 1hr subs.
Aspen CG16M on 20" PlaneWave on MI-750 fork. All processing (except making final thumbnail) using GoodLook 64.
Hope you like it too.
Best,
Mike and Trish