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This was taken
            in high winds with relatively poor seeing, however the sky was
            very transparent offering an opportunity to attempt to record
            far more dim nebulosity than I have before on this extended object.
            Extreme care was taken on maintaining the color present in the
            original G2V balanced RGB data by overlaying using Hue the RGB
            data over the final LRGB. The delicate pinks, oranges and reds
            were thus faithfully recorded here and are not distorted by the
            process of combining the luminance data into the final image.
            I was also careful not to have any white clipping on any color
            layers to preserve the inner core shades as well.

            
The Object

            
This V shaped nebula
            spans over 20 arc minutes in size and is one of many tiny nebula
            that peppers the Perseus/Cassiopeia region.

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Mount:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera:  SBIG 10XME NABG with Enhanced Water Cooling
Guider: Meade DSI Pro  w/Lumicon Newt Easy Guider
Exposure:  LRGB = 120:20:20:20 
AstroDon RGB Combine Ratio:  1: 1.05: 1.2
Location:  Payson, Arizona, Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = 15 arcsec (Maxim DL - 10min subframe), Transparency 9/10
Outside Temperature:  30 F
CCD Temperature:  -30 C
Image Processing Tools: 
Maxim DL:  Calibration, deblooming (Starizona Debloomer), aligning, stacking
PixInsight:  Curves, Deconvolution
Photoshop CS2:  Curves, Color Correction, Gradient removal (Grad Xterminator), Cleanup

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