SH2-129 The Flying Bat and Squid Nebula (John Favalessa)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: 1E 21150+6027 · 87GB 21014+6003 · MQ J211146.23+581801.3 · PGC 165873 · PGC 167712 · PGC 167718 · PGC 167721 · PGC 167723 · PGC 167725 · PGC 167727 · PGC 167730 · PGC 167787 · PGC 167789 · PGC 3096611 · PGC 90383 · WISEA J210606.39+595501.1 · WISEA J210802.34+591039.1 · WISEA J211408.92+611255.0 · WISEA J211632.14+602400.6 · WISEA J211640.28+582603.0 · WISEA J211648.66+583732.0

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SH2-129 The Flying Bat and Squid Nebula

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SH2-129 The Flying Bat and Squid Nebula

What a fun target! Unimaginable how this cloud of Oiii took this shape and is just floating around out there. I purposely went weak in the processing of the Ha as my focus was on the squid. Truly an amazing looking object.

I first mistyped the title as “the Flying But and Squid Nebula”! 🤪 The squid does kind of look like a butt plug 😂, but I haven’t made out the bat yet. Guess I need more Ha to discern. Imaged from a dark site, Amboy Crater and then Mohave Desert National Preserve BLM at the Boulders. (Amboy was too noise with the freight trains all night and then the lights for other RV's) I also imaged with my 102GT and OSC camera on these same nights. I hope to get to processing that soon…for another comparison between the 2600MM to 2600MC with Antlia dual narrowband. But going to Germany in a couple of days…maybe process on the airplane.

Oh, this is an HOO image with color normalized and 90% green removed.

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RA (center)	21h11m44s.49
RA (top/left)	20h57m48s.40
RA (top/right)	21h10m23s.69
RA (bottom/right)	21h24m55s.46
RA (bottom/left)	21h13m19s.60

Dec (center)	+59°51′06″.5
Dec (top/left)	+60°43′07″.1
Dec (top/right)	+57°55′58″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+58°54′05″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	+61°46′47″.4

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