After my fiasco with the Iris Nebula a couple days ago (using the wrong filter) I had another try yesterday. Yet again this reflection nebula in Cepheus was proving to be a hard nut to crack. This time I had multiple issues: guiding errors, coma, camera tilt and what I believe was probably some collimation issue.

Although I did manage to get the beautiful deep blue color of the nebula, there is a lot of noise in the dust and the stars are all over the place. Let’s hope third time is the charm.