This is a region a bit southwest of the famous Propeller Nebula and half way between Gamma Cyg and Delta Cyg. Here presented south, down and east, right for my personal artistic reasons.
This is another of those recent images that I selected for no other reason for that the area seemed not overly "exposed" by astrophotographers and in some respects maybe not the most exciting area of interest. I was not expecting the star density that I got, especially having checked this out with DSS2 imaging. This sort of reminds me of my
SH2 114, The Flying Dragon, Emerging From the Smoke of Its Destruction. OSC Image and with that, I also offer a full-on star image mouse-over as I did for the Dragon. Luckily, I had already established that even with OSC and an L-Pro filter, I could tease out something from such a dense star image. Under such circumstances, I am not embarassed by having killed so many stars. I actually spent some effort in preserving some of the brighter stars for some added interest and color contrast. Alas, the most distinctively colored star is the very deep red one in the lower left of the image. When I first saw that star my immediate reaction was that has to be a carbon star. And I was correct! These red stars, so distinctively deep red and seen often are well evolved stars, deeply burned into their stock of hydrogen and converting mass into higher mass nuclei, such as carbon. They also are often variable and throw off gas and dust. A turbulent situation. And a NIR/IR hotspot.
The name Kepler's or Keplers is not identifiable on any of the plate solving I did. However the Simbad database in Aladin displays in an overlap of this field and a far more extensive region around this field that identifies apparent saturation bombing of extrasolar planet research/discoveries. These all identified by the Kepler spacecraft/mission. This is a particular area of interest to me, so hence the name!
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