NGC7822, a huge cloud of gas and dust in the constellation of Cepheus. It was hard to find a satisfying composition for this one, as it’s an amorphous mass of dust. But it does have some interesting ‘bok globules’ - those strange looking yellow pillars and spikes are dense star forming regions. 

I captured this data when I was very new to astrophotography, but I have gone back to the old sub-frames a few times in a bid to improve on the processing. I think this is a particularly difficult one to process because here art and science seem to fight against each other. I would never add anything that isn’t genuinely there in the data, but I hope I was still able to guide the eye into the heart-shaped centre whilst giving it a sense of three dimensional depth.