Amateur Astronomy Picture of the Day

I was pleasantly surprised a while ago when I opened my Inbox. There was a mail coming from the Admin of AAPOD which states:

Congratulations! tani
Cat's Paw and Lobster Nebulae
http://astronomy.fm/aapod/2011-11-02/Cat%27s+Paw+and+Lobster+Nebulae.html
Everyone at Astronomy.FM congratulates you for being today's Amateur
Astrophotographer of the Day!

Your AAPOD submission will be featured all day at Astronomy.FM, and
will be entered into the monthly AAPOD contest, where you could win
200 credits at Global Rent-A-Scope.

Thank you for supporting Astronomy.FM by sharing your photo with us.
We hope you'll continue to submit your favorite images.

Clear skies,
Team AAPOD

This is the image I posted below. Wow! what a day!

Re-processed Cat's Paw and Lobster Nebula

By trying different methods of image processing, I came up with this one that emphasizes the nebula rather than the field of stars. I also cropped the field to frame only the nebulae.