Cocoon Nebula IC5146—Amorphous Blob surrounded by Dust & Ash (Dave Rust)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: B168 · Cocoon Nebula · IC 5146 · LBN 424 · LDN 1055 · Sh2-125 · VdB147

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Cocoon Nebula IC5146—Amorphous Blob surrounded by Dust & Ash

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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Cocoon Nebula IC5146—Amorphous Blob surrounded by Dust & Ash

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Another Amorphous Blob surrounded by Dust & Ash!

Otherwise known as the Cocoon Nebula IC5146.

Looking a bit like a wad of gum on a celestial sidewalk, this is a tight cloud of glowing ionized hydrogen with dense star-forming regions. It's surrounded by non-glowing gasses and is in fact near the end of a long column extending to the upper right, forming the appearance of a trail behind the Cocoon.

If I wasn't lazy, I'd switch telescopes and shoot the wider view that shows this overall structure.

C'est la vie. Perhaps another day.

Cocoon is located in the constellation Cygnus and is only 4000 light years away in another spiral arm of our own Milky Way galaxy. The bright star in the center is very young, compressed and ignited perhaps only 100,000 years ago. It's surrounded by smaller siblings birthed at the same time.

It's 52° F tonight here on Earth...a nice relief from last week and its -10 temps. With the extra clear skies I can see our galaxy stretch across the view and I feel humbled by its size. We are such a tiny part of it all.

I'm waxing philosophically perhaps from having a shot of Kohler's Chocolate Brandy while listening to tonight's tune, 𝘈𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦, by the Tord Gustavsen Trio.

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RA (center)	21h53m22s.833
RA (top/left)	21h52m18s.762
RA (top/right)	21h52m13s.991
RA (bottom/right)	21h54m26s.283
RA (bottom/left)	21h54m32s.355

Dec (center)	+47°15′17″.41
Dec (top/left)	+47°31′36″.40
Dec (top/right)	+46°59′34″.33
Dec (bottom/right)	+46°58′55″.27
Dec (bottom/left)	+47°30′56″.85

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