In my last post I walked through a long stretch of the Milky...

In my last post I walked through a long stretch of the Milky Way, our galaxy, and at the far left of the shot was part of the constellation Cepheus with a “vivid red star” called the “Garnet Star” (Mu Cephei), and that was right next to some cool nebulosity that includes the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula. Well here’s what that region looks like up close in RGB color. (You should see it in narrowband!). I took 21 x 300 second (5- minute) exposures, running the sensor at -10°C, stacked them in DSS, and processed them in Photoshop CC 2018. That’s Mu Cephei in the lower left, and middle top you can see the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula. Also including a pic of my setup for this shot– #WilliamOptics GT81 APO refractor and a #ZWO ASI071MC cooled color astro camera.