SBIG ST8300C, Total 1:50 hours = RGB 22x5 min
Boren-Simon 2.8-8 ED OTA - http://www.powernewts.com - EQ6 mount, guided w/PHD and EQMOD
This image is 1300 pixels wide.

The Jellyfish Nebula is the brighter arcing ridge of emission with dangling tentacles below and left of center. In fact, the cosmic jellyfish is seen to be part of bubble-shaped supernova remnant IC 443, the expanding debris cloud from a massive star that exploded. Light from the explosion first reached planet Earth over 30,000 years ago. Like its cousin in astrophysical waters the Crab Nebula supernova remnant, IC 443 is known to harbor a neutron star, the remnant of the collapsed stellar core. A portion of the emission nebula Sharpless 249 fills the field at the upper right of this image. The Jellyfish Nebula is about 5,000 light-years away. (REF: NASA APOD MAY 2009)