SH2-178: Nebulosity Immediately Below Polaris (Brandon Tackett)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Minor (UMi) · Contains: HD195252 · HD203836 · HD207929 · HD213126 · HD221142 · HD221488 · HD221525 · HD224687 · HD245 · HD946 · LDN 1289 · LDN 1292 · Sh2-178

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SH2-178: Nebulosity Immediately Below Polaris

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SH2-178: Nebulosity Immediately Below Polaris

A brief 3 hours after capturing objects in Monoceros turned into quite an image. My intentioned goal for the project revolved around capturing an area near the NCP, but not capturing Polaris or the pole itself. When looking at the sky atlas, SH2-178 looked liked an interesting area to capture. The entire area has dark nebulosity with the beauty of the Integrated Flux Nebula on full display around Polaris. The bottom of the image's location is at 86.3 degrees N and the top of the image is at 88.5 degrees N.

After re-watching Adam Block's videos on GHS, I use this process completely for all the stretching in different phases and for the stars separately. I am curious what people think compared to my other dark nebula stretches?

Sh2-178 is no well described in my research and is a portion of the large molecular cloud sometimes referred to the Polaris flare around 500 light years from Earth. This area has numerous filamentary structures in the clouds of dust that have very minimal star formation. The formation is part of the diffuse ISM (interstellar medium). I did find it difficult to determine the distance where the ISM changes to the Integrated Flux nebula. The IFN is a combination "high latitude" nebula or even intergalactic material above the central plane of the Milky Way. The dust is composed of mostly hydrogen and smaller portions of oxygen and carbon. The nebula is illuminated not by a star or a cluster of stars, but instead by the whole Milky Way.

While prcessing the image, I kept seeing it as two wolves pointing / howling at Polaris. The area the front left appears to be a wolf howling and the the top right farther away appears to be a wolf looking up at the sky.

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RA (center)	22h19m53s.22
RA (top/left)	01h49m50s.47
RA (top/right)	18h46m49s.77
RA (bottom/right)	20h35m35s.59
RA (bottom/left)	23h59m48s.23

Dec (center)	+87°37′40″.7
Dec (top/left)	+87°52′25″.2
Dec (top/right)	+87°57′18″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+86°09′45″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+86°07′03″.6

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