Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex

From NASA: The many spectacular colors of the Rho Ophiuchi (oh'-fee-yu-kee) clouds highlight the many processes that occur there. The blue regions shine primarily by reflected light. Blue light from the Rho Ophiuchi star system and nearby stars reflects more efficiently off this portion of the nebula than red light. The Earth's daytime sky appears blue for the same reason. The red and yellow regions shine primarily because of emission from the nebula's atomic and molecular gas. Light from nearby blue stars - more energetic than the bright star Antares - knocks electrons away from the gas, which then shines when the electrons recombine with the gas. The dark brown regions are caused by dust grains - born in young stellar atmospheres - which effectively block light emitted behind them. The Rho Ophiuchi star clouds, well in front of the globular cluster M4 visible here on the [lower left], are even more colorful than humans can see - the clouds emits light in every wavelength band from the radio to the gamma-ray.

Image Notes: I think I am a broken record at this point, but you get it, the weather is rough and my deep space imaging sessions are few and far between. Also I have been working on some other imaging processes, namely solar in preparation for the upcoming eclipse. There’s quite a bit of tuning involved there, so I’ve been a busy bee in that respect. TelescopeLive is great for me as this is one of the objects I want to image, but the trees behind my home block it for most of the night. One day I plan to take my equipment to a remote site and photograph it myself.