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This is a relatively rarely imaged area in Aries.
The dusty clouds are known as "the Drunken Dragon". If you turn the image clockwise you will certainly find the dragon's jaws :-)
But if you turn it counter-clockwise you will see a sad seahorse. Check revision B :-)
My thanks to @Vadim Kozatchenko for his useful comments on the image and to my younger daughter Eugenia for the seahorse drawing, she kindly made for me!

The data was taken as a side-job in three nights in October 2021 at my dark site 1,5 hours of driving from home.
The lens is at f/2.2

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Title: Seahorse overlaid

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LBN753, LBN762 - the Drunken Dragon, Konstantin Firsov