Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  B174
Barnard 174: Cepheus Dark Cloud, Lilith Gaither
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Barnard 174: Cepheus Dark Cloud

Barnard 174: Cepheus Dark Cloud, Lilith Gaither
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Barnard 174: Cepheus Dark Cloud

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A beautiful dark nebula within the northern constellation of Cepheus. This image captures the main cloud (LDN 1164) as well as a tiny, orange jet near the bottom, identified by SIMBAD as Herbig-Haro object HH 354. This region, first identified as an HH-Flow candidate by Bally & Devine in this 1997 paper, is the birthplace of a new star.

Very little information is available on this object; I scoured for even a simple distance estimate and came up empty-handed, though it did lead me somewhere interesting. The 2005 paper by Froebrich et al. describes the parsec-scale outflow from HH 354 as well as characterizing aspects of star formation in globules throughout the vicinity of IC 1396.

This image was taken a while back, the last frame gathered in late December. I have been holding it while trying to research and explore this field for the description, but must unfortunately report to the world a null result.

I have decided to post without a very full description primarily to help rebuild & contribute following The Great Data Disaster of 2020. Despite this, I plan on rectifying this to as many of you as possible. If you are interested in being updated with more info as I find it, or simply want to know when I fix this description, please don't be afraid to fill out the Google Form & add your name to the interest list.

This image was not the last with my AVX, nor my second-to-last. I think it belongs in one-&-a-halvth-place, if that even makes sense. (More to come on this soon; I'll likely make a "Gear" post as soon as my She-Shed is finished)

Hope you enjoyed this trainwreck of a post it was a blast to write!!!

Lilith

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Barnard 174: Cepheus Dark Cloud, Lilith Gaither