Recently imaged by Andy in narrowband here is an otherwise rarely imaged but amazing area of gas and dust in Puppis. It is composed of mostly hydrogen with some faint brown/blue dust spread amongst it. It is pretty faint stuff, especially the dust, so some nice dark Moonless nights helped. This is an LHaRGB composition (yes that's why is is fairly red as the HII is rather dominant), the Luminance looks quite different to the H-alpha because it shows the faint dust and it was quite a challenge to show both the faint dust and the HII.
All image details under the image,
EDIT: Just found out its got a name too...BBW 56
Gas and dust in Puppis - click on image to enlarge and surf around.
and for those who like to see full res images look
here.
Those afflicted with pareidolia amongst us, might even see the profile of the Big Friendly Giant in there....
NB:
The phenomenon of seeing patterns in randomness, which is called pareidolia, is fairly common. Neurotic people may be more likely to experience it. While pareidolia was at one time thought to be related to psychosis, it's now generally recognized as a perfectly healthy tendency.
Phew, lucky about the last line
Mike