For those of you with kids, this is the Peter Rabbit presentation of the famous North American and Pelican Nebulae: Original story by Beatrix Potter. This photo looks very much like the hand of Mr. McGregor reaching for - and missing - Peter Rabbit. If you look closely, you can see Peter Rabbit grinning as he gets away: Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail, who were good little bunnies, went down the lane to gather blackberries...but Peter, who was very naughty, ran straight to Mr. McGregors garden and squeezed under the gate! First he ate some lettuce and some beans, and then he ate some radishes. On his way to find some parsley, whom should he meet but Mr. McGregor! Mr. McGregor jumped up and ran after Peter, shouting, Stop, thief! Peter was very frightened. He rushed all over the garden, for he had forgotten the way back to the gate. Unfortunately Peter ran into a gooseberry net and got caught by the large brass buttons on his jacket. Peter gave himself up for lost; but his sobs were overheard by some friendly sparrows, who flew to him in great excitement and begged him to try to free himself. Just as Mr. McGregor came up with a sieve, which he intended to pop on top of Peter, Peter wriggled out of his jacket, leaving it behind him. Date Captured: 8/17/2006 through 9/13/2006 Equipment Used: - TAK FSQ - STL-6303, self-guided, 10-second guiding integrations - Astrodon narrowband filters - FLI-PDF - Paramount ME Exposures (MaxIM for camera control and capture): - 7.5 hours of OIII - 7.5 hours of SII - 5.5 hours of Ha ...all subs were 30 minute subs Processing: CCDStack: - calibration - bloom removal - channel sub registration - normalization and data rejection - mean combine - gentle deconvolution, where appropriate - hot/cold pixel removal - DDP, no sharpening - registration of final sub masters Photoshop CS2: - color creation: full tri-color narrowband variations, Ha/sG/OIII bi-color version - minor star bloom repair - curves for adjusting color treatment to taste