Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  60 c Ser  ·  61 Ser  ·  PK028+02.1  ·  Sh2-64  ·  The star 60Ser  ·  The star 61Ser
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Sh2 64 (Westerhout 40), Jerry Yesavage
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Sh2 64 (Westerhout 40)

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Sh2 64 (Westerhout 40), Jerry Yesavage
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Sh2 64 (Westerhout 40)

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This confused me a lot there is a conflicting Ha and dusty RBG signal, which is maybe somewhat explained in Wikipedia:

The Westerhout 40 star-forming region is projected on the sky in the direction of the Serpens-Aquila Rift, a mass of dark clouds above the Galactic plane in the constellations Aquila, Serpens, and eastern Ophiuchus. The high extinction from these foreground clouds means that this region looks unimpressive in the optical, despite being one of the nearest sites of massive star formation. Also residing nearby on the sky are Serpens south, an infrared dark cloud that is actively forming stars,[10] and the Serpens Main cluster.

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