Barnard 18 is a part of the humongous Taurus Molecular Cloud spanning parts of the constellations of Taurus and Auriga. The cloud is only about 430 light years away from Earth. It offers a wide range of beautiful but very faint nebulae.

The image was exposed for a total of 8.5 hours with Chroma LRGB filters, a ZWO ASI2600MM camera, Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED refractor telescope and an APM Riccardi 0.75x focal reducer.