The Southern sky between 20h and 0h is, frankly a bit of a disappointment.  Sure its got the best PN around, but the "wonders" are few and far between.  

This image represents the first panel of a mosaic to bring two of those "wonders" together; namely Sh2-63 and Barnard's galaxy.  

The Eastern most panel (of Sh2-63) was imaged on the one transparent moonless evening, we have had here in 3 months.  [I also shot  LMC and SMC simultaneously on a small rig with my Canon 6D - also posted here, so it was a busy evening.]

Since the weather has turned poor again, I suspect my chance of completing the mosaic this year are diminishing, so I thought I would post my Sh2-63 image on its own. 

I posted an image of this object last year taken under poor conditions, with an unmodded DSLR camera and inadequate exposure time.   So I was keen to return and do a much better job, inspired in part by @Scotty Bishop 's excellent image of this object. I greatly admire and take a great deal of inspiration from Scotty's work.

As stated by nearly everyone who attempts this object, it is a bit of a *@#&! to process.  It wasn't any different for me, exacerbated by some of my R subs going out of focus due to a rapid temperature drop.   In the end, however, I was reasonably pleased with the result.  

Obviously it's not up there with Scotty's work, but I am now beginning to recognise how personal styles and tastes start to influence post-processing.  Scotty's work on interstellar clouds tend to emphasise their dustiness (with whites and greys), while I seem to go for smokiness (with browns and yellows).  Scotty's work on Sh2-63 is also a little sharper, and I have yet to learn how to do this well (thanks to my AB friend @Michael Feigenbaum for his gentle advice on this subject).  For this object, I decided hold off on the image sharpening, again to emphasise the smoother "smokiness" feel I tend to go for.  

The other issue about this area - and what make it both interesting and challenging (for me at least) - is the sheer amount of interstellar fluff around.  It is tempting the set the black point quite low to pick much of this up, but then it looks like one is looking through a net curtain, destroying the impact of the image.  In a masochistic sort of way, I am kind of looking forward to imaging the other panel of the mosaic, since this has even more "fluff".  

Apologies for the long read, but I do find this part of the sky quite interesting.  I need to get out more. 

L:  40 x 300sec
R: 12 x 300sec (6 lost due to focus issue) 
G: 15 x 600sec 
B: 15 x 600sec