This is the fourth time I've shot this target—all of them done in completely different ways. I think it's of of the strangest-looking fields in the night sky, but it also has a quite magnetic beauty, which is why it's one of the most popular targets for people with access to good skies. I tried to frame this artistically with NGC 1333 as the main focus while still capturing some of the lesser known and imaged objects nearby. These include vdB 12, 13, and 16. I'm pretty enthralled by the vdB catalog, so I'm slowly working my way through it. At 64 captured so far, I still have a very long way (95) to go.
Here are some crops of these individual vdBs: First up, the orange-yellow luminescent vdB 12:
Next is the eerie vdB 13 above a dark nebula curl that may contain a planetary nebula (@Herbert_West?):
Then there's my favorite of the extras, the ghostly vdB 16, which, to me, resembles vdB 4 a bit:
And finally, the star of the show, vdB 17 and the surrounding oddities, including a number of Herbig-Haro objects:
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