Taken from a bitterly cold, northern winter sky, here she is at the foot of The Hunter, mouth agape, basking in the chilling, blue light of the mighty supergiant star Rigel.

Depicted without stars, the dust and gas comprising The Witch Head, become better defined.

Data
Taking Camera SBIG STL-11000XM	Nova Scotia, Winter, 2014, skies mag 6.4 - Sensor @-20C
Imaging OTA	Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII with QE Reducer
Equivalent focal length and ratio	385mm @f/3.6
Mount	AstroPhysics 1600
Guiding	PHD with MMOAG and SBIG STi
7hrs 45mins total integration time	L 20X5', R 24X5', G 25X5', B 24X5' Filters Astrodon Series I Gen 2 All unbinned
Calibration and Stacking	Darks, Bias and Flat Frames - PinInsight
Reprocessed Feb 2023	PixInsight,Affinity Photo v.2.04

Although very faint, and quite invisible to the eye, she's actually a very large lady on the night sky! Here she is, with the moon at proper scale artificially superimposed with her just for comparison. Incidentally, at a distance of approximately one thousand light years, The Witch is about twenty-four MILLION times further away than the moon!

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