A beautiful reflection nebula illuminated by the bright star “Rigel”. The blue color is from starlight scattered off dust grains which scatter shorter wave lengths that are closer to the grain size. To see the Witch’s Head go to the bright orange star in the center (its in her jaw), and come up a distance to the right to see her blue nose jutting out into space.

Takahashi CCA-250 Astrograph telescope with an ST11000 camera and Astrodon filters. F3.5 LRGB(26/7minb/w.6/5min bin2x2RGB)