Dust interacting with a light reflection nebula gives this area in Cepheus a wonderful “palette” to display its faint field stars A dark figure, like the maw of some celestial leviathan, seems to be reaching upwards for a star.

4″ Televue Refractor with ST10XE/CFW8/F4.3LRGB 60/5minBW,10/5min2x2binRGB. Scaled on MaximDLat R 1.0, G 1.0 and B 1.6.