SBIG ST8300C, Total 2:45 hours = RGB 33x5 min
Boren-Simon 2.8-8 ED OTA - http://www.powernewts.com - EQ6 mount, guided w/PHD and EQMOD
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This image was shot over several nights in September and October 2010: 2 frames on Sept. 7th, 24 frames on the night between Sept. 9th and 10th, another 5 frames on Oct. 7th, and finally, 2 frames on the night of Oct. 8th. I can't accuse anything or anyone for this arduous process, but perhaps some bad luck, causing me time and again to stop imaging due to the object being on the wrong side of the meridian, bad seeing, bad guiding, and so on.

It was all the more worse, since I was dreaming about the Ghost Nebula, and about imaging it, for months before... That big bird of prey, hovering among the stars with it's deep inner glow just didn't leave my thoughts. It soon became one of those "prime" objects, to which I felt an immediate attraction, and not being able to complete the job was quite frustrating. But - I kept coming (:-)) and eventually I bagged it. I hope you like it as much as I do.

To the object itself (as taken from the APOD text here: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap101030.html):

Spooky shapes seem to haunt this starry expanse, drifting through the night in the royal constellation Cepheus. Of course, the shapes are cosmic dust clouds faintly visible in dimly reflected starlight. Far from your own neighborhood on planet Earth, they lurk at the edge of the Cepheus Flare molecular cloud complex some 1,200 light-years away. Over 2 light-years across the ghostly nebula known as vdB 141 or Sh2-136 is near the center of the field. The core of the dark cloud on the bottom is collapsing and is likely a binary star system in the early stages of formation.