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 The color
            of this object in both amateur and professional images ranges
            quite a gamut. I've seen blues, greens, reds and every color
            in between. This image is G2V calibrated and I feel is pretty
            close to correct. The core of this object appears as a bluish-green
            hue, surrounded by a crimson red double rim. The central star
            is a lovely sky blue coloration as well. In the larger views
            you will see six or seven stars inside the nebula itself. The
            Owl is 12th magnitude, and a large 3.4 minutes in size - twice
            the size of the Ring in Lyra.

            
The field is
            filled with dozens of very faint galaxies, most 16th to 18th
            magnitude. The most famous of these is the faint tuft of nebulosity
            just touching the star to the upper right of the nebula. This
            object, pgc34279 is a bright 16.1 magnitude spiral galaxy which
            is .8 arcminutes long.

            
Seeing was horrid,
            but the sky was clear and transparent for this image. 

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera:  SBIG 10XME NABG with Enhanced Cooling
Guider: SBIG ST4
Exposure:  LRGB = 60:20:20:20 (RGB Binned 2x2)
RGB Combine Ratio:  1: 1.05: 1.11
Filters:  AstroDon RGB Tricolor
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = 8.5 arcsec (Maxim DL - 10min subframe), Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  15 C
CCD Temperature:  -20 C
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL,  Photoshop, PixInsight, RW Debloomer.
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