Sh2-114, Flying Dragon Nebula (Greg Erianne)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 67 Cyg · 67 sig Cyg · HD202880 · HD202989 · HD203097 · HD203155 · HD203156 · HD203233 · HD203438 · HD203454 · HD203611 · HD203696 · HD203713 · HD203784 · HD203857 · HD203940 · HD204324 · LBN 333 · LBN 346 · LBN 347 · PK083-08.1 · Sh2-113 · Sh2-114 · The star σ Cyg

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Sh2-114, Flying Dragon Nebula

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Sh2-114, Flying Dragon Nebula

The Flying Dragon nebula (Sh2-114) is a very faint nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is very filamentous, not well-studied, and has a few nearby structures such as Sh2-113 (cloud below the Dragon's right wingtip assuming it's flying toward us). However, the descriptions that I could find of surrounding structures and some of the galaxies around were very, well, nebulous! So, I won't try to identify anything else other than the obvious Sh2-114 Nebula. Apparently, its distance from us isn't even published (yet).Since this is such a dim target, this was a challenge I set for myself with my new ZWO AM5 mount. Amazingly, the second set of images were captured with a 79% illuminated moon, which was out all night. Gotta love those narrowband filters! 😍 AT60ED (360 mm fL)
ASI2600MC Pro (OSC camera)
ZWO AM5 harmonic mount with guiding via ASIAir Plus using an ASI120mm mini and a 30mm F4 guide scope
Antlia ALP-T Ha/OIII dual narrowband filter
300s x 80 [Total Exposure about 6:40 over two nights]; with dark, flat, and flat dark frames
Pre-processed in PixInsight and post-processed in Photoshop

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RA (center)	21h21m37s.13
RA (top/left)	21h26m10s.96
RA (top/right)	21h29m17s.14
RA (bottom/right)	21h16m47s.17
RA (bottom/left)	21h14m17s.16

Dec (center)	+38°43′13″.5
Dec (top/left)	+36°46′12″.2
Dec (top/right)	+40°16′37″.10
Dec (bottom/right)	+40°39′39″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+37°07′48″.10

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