Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Pegasus (Peg)  ·  Contains:  54 Peg)  ·  Marchab (α Peg  ·  The star 52 Peg  ·  The star Markab  ·  Yed Alpheras
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Sharpless 2-122 wide field -- not an HII region, David Elmore
Sharpless 2-122 wide field -- not an HII region
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Sharpless 2-122 wide field -- not an HII region

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Sharpless 2-122 wide field -- not an HII region, David Elmore
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Sharpless 2-122 wide field -- not an HII region

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Sh2-122 is at the southwest corner of the Great Square in Pegasus.  The bright star marking that corner is Markab.  The Sharpless catalog is a listing of HII regions, but this one, among several others, is obviously a molecular cloud, not showing up in emission lines.

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Sharpless 2-122 wide field -- not an HII region, David Elmore