These relatively often imaged objects are usually imaged in RGB. In fact I have not been able to find any narrow band images of this area. However, as the moon was out I decided to keep the NBZ dual band (Ha+Oiii) filter on, and hoped there would be a significant amount of Ha and Oiii emission in this area. To my surprise it picked up a lot of it, especially red (presumably Ha emitting) dust. It even picked up dust in areas where little or no dust is seen in RGB images, giving a rather different overall structure to these objects compared to what RGB images show. For example, this excellent IOTD by Jarrett Trezzo provides a striking comparison:
https://www.astrobin.com/cmsh7t/E/. Especially the dusty area in the central part of the image, catalogued by Lynds as LBN 819, is much larger in my NB image compared to RGB images.
Sh2-239 in the lower left, and Hind's Variable Nebula (aka NGC1444 or Sh2-238) in the upper right, both include Herbig-Haro objects. HH 102 respectively HH 155.
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