Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  Cocoon Nebula  ·  IC 5146
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The Cocoon and Barnard 168, Ken Sablinsky
The Cocoon and Barnard 168
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The Cocoon and Barnard 168

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The Cocoon and Barnard 168, Ken Sablinsky
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The Cocoon and Barnard 168

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A wide field look at the Cocoon and surrounding dark nebulae. Barnard 168 trails off to the right of the Cocoon.

Working more with the Pix script NormalizeScaleGradient, it helped immensely over the two nights of imaging, both because I started the series when the Cocoon was low in the sky with a heavy light pollution gradient, and I also had the moon to contend with for the first part of the evening, especially the 2nd night.

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The Cocoon and Barnard 168, Ken Sablinsky