The Cocoon from three different nights and locations. With the Wizard Nebula I added OSC stars to a NB-OSC image. This time I've added NB-OSC nebulosity to a OSC image. Dark skies (B 3) shot with one shot color on two nights combined with dual narrowband from the third night (B 7). 14 hours of exposure time, 44 5' UV/IR from The Spring in Leakey, Texas, on the banks of the Frio River on 2024-09-29, 45 5' UV/IR from Silver City, New Mexico, 2023-10-22 and 80 5' dual NB Ha+O3 from Austin to better capture Ha nebulosity.

Here is a center crop around the Cocoon:

And here is the complete image. Follow through to the linked full size image for a better view.

WO RedCat 250/51mm, Baader UV/IR or Optolong L-Ultimate filter, ASI533 MC camera, ASIAIR Plus controller, SW AZ-EQ5 mount. Processed in PixInsight: drizzle stacked then SPCC, Auto DBE, RC-Astro Noise/Blur/StarXTerminator plugins, & SetiAstro statistical and star stretch. Final exp and crop in Photoshop

Here's the kit it took to capture this image:

Many thanks to the Frio StarFest for their invitation, The Spring resort for hosting us, and the many prople who stoped to chat about astrophotography. As always I think my biggest fan and assistant, Mary. She stepped up to help me across the rainbow bridge to the observing field. You can see how even my small equipment adds up: