A well known and often shot emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus is the “Elephant Trunk”. Cropped in on just the trunk people see all sorts of things. One day by chance my wife saw the image rotated in a such a way, that she said it looked like “Smaug the dragon” (from the Hobbit). I thought, it REALLY DOES. So, at least to me for now on, this object is forever more “Annies Dragon” (my wife’s name is LeeAnne).
This particular image was just shy of two hours of hydrogen alpha exposures with a Player One Poseidon-M camera and Chroma 3nm Ha filters. Normally, these monochrome Ha images are grayscale but I did add just a tint of redish brownish to give it a sepia-tone type treatment. It’s a photo of a dragon after all, and one day it will be an old photo of a dragon 😉