It may look to some like a Duck (I see a frog...) , but it lays stars instead of eggs.
At the Upper the above image lies Barnard 163, a nebula of molecular gas and dust so thick that visible light can't shine through it.
With a wing span measured in light years, Barnard 163's insides are surely colder than its exterior, allowing conditions where gas can clump and eventually form stars.
Barnard 163 lies about 3,000 light years from Earth toward the constellation of Cepheus the King.
The red glow in the background results from IC 1396, a large emission nebula that houses the Elephant's Trunk Nebula. (NASA-APOD)

This region is overlooked because it's famous neighbor - the Elephant trunk.
It is a pure Ha region - Although I imaged it also in S2 and O3 - The signal was negligible.

Imaged over several nights in September-December 2016
Ha used as luminance (Please see next image for Ha only...)
RGB for the star colors

Ha - 80 X 600sec (Almost 14 HRS)
RGB - 30 min each

Total about 15 HRS

All images at Bih 2 = 0.89" per pixel (so 15 hrs at bin 2 equals 60 hrs in bin 1...)

C14 equipped with Starizona SCT corrector (operating at F7.2)
ASA DDM60 - no guiding :)
Imaged from my home in Gan-Yavne ISRAEL