In an effort to further practice some LRGB processing, and to fill in a few gaps in imaging time while waiting for various targets to rise, I started imaging this beautiful region of space. After having some early success with what I was seeing come through, I made a plan to go for 16 hours of LRGB (4hrs/filter) and my usual set for RGB stars, just to be safe.
Part way through this, and very much on a whim, I decided to see what kind of Ha response was in this region. To my surprise even single 120s frames had a reasonable Ha signal right in the very bright area, so i decided to throw in 4 hours of Ha while i was at it. Interestingly enough, there is a very small amount of Ha signal present in the dust clouds, and the pressure wave from that big bright star on the mid-right of frame is pretty clearly defined in the Ha. Given the shape, and the amount of blue response around that star, I may look at seeing what kind of OIII signal is there as well.
As with all my images of late, They're being processed on the Gaming laptop, which has a pretty poorly calibrated screen, so while the colours look pretty good to me, I'm very much open to critique.
Click here to see it on Astrobin, including the Equipment and full acquisition details.
Clear Skies, and thanks for looking!
This object gets imaged A LOT and nearly always looks pretty good, just due to it being a bluudy purler of an object but you've done it extra good justice. I love the galaxy and sprite like bit of blue neb, right at the top and in the middle of the image and that arc of bright nebulosity and blue patches around the star, midway along the Anteater's snout, looks great too 
