I had to take this image because of a newly found nebula discovered by
Jim Thommes. I had planned on imaging this region anyway because of
vdB87 but Jim beat me to it. The nebula does not appear in the POSS
plates and is being studied by the team in Hawaii lead by Bo Reipurth.
Nothing is official yet but I am pretty excited for Jim.
It is a pretty region on Monoceros none to less; and of course there
is lots of dust!!
http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_0000af.htm
Happy Holidays to you all down under.
Tom