The Cocoon nebula

Last night's effort of the Cocoon nebula ploughing its way through the
stars, trailing behind it one of Barnard's Dark nebula. This is
made up of 12 Light frames, 10 Flats but no Dark frames in this
instance the Darks I have, are adding noise in the form of a large band
across the bottom. So you may see a few hot pixels but you could
pretend that they are red giants, in fact some may be. It needs more
lights as well

The framing/composition is almost what I'm after, it's only a gnats
smidgin out though but it's causing an itch.

June is a terrible month for astrophotography, DSLRs get hotter and
the night doesn't stay night for long.
You see, I never ever, run out of excuses for not getting the image I
want. But it'll be back.

Yes, I know it's upside down but I like it this way. Click here for the full imaging details.