SH2-54 and The Scary Face Nebula (Logan Carpenter)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Serpens (Ser) · Contains: HD167496 · HD167518 · HD167677 · HD167810 · HD167881 · HD167926 · HD167971 · HD168112 · HD168135 · HD168298 · HD168348 · HD168350 · HD168366 · HD168393 · HD168746 · HD168893 · HD169033 · HD169064 · HD169170 · HD169226 · HD169227 · LBN 70 · LBN 71 · LBN 72 · LDN 394 · LDN 405 · NGC 6604 · NGC 6625 · PK019+00.1 · Sh2-54

SH2-54 and The Scary Face Nebula

Looking for somewhere to image with the Askar 65PHQ, I came across an area of bright nebula in the constellation of Serpens, called SH2-54.
SH2-54 is part of the extensive nebulosity which includes the more famous Eagle Nebula and the Omega Nebula.
In the upper part of the image centrally is the star cluster NGC6604 whilst the bright area located just to the left of this star cluster
has been called 'The Scary Face Nebula'.

Near the bottom of the image and just to the left of center is the bubble I imaged previously with the Meade 10" which I called The Croc Eye Bubble .

Whilst I started to take images with the Askar 65PHQ and 2600mmPro, I then later continued with the Redcat 51and the ASI533mmPro and combined the subs in AstroPixel Processor, cropping the combined data down to the fov of the square sensor of the ASI533.

Edit: for those having trouble seeing the scary face (as I did when I started imaging this area) the mouseover should help

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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	18h19m52s.37
RA (top/left)	18h15m31s.82
RA (top/right)	18h15m27s.94
RA (bottom/right)	18h24m15s.70
RA (bottom/left)	18h24m14s.36

Dec (center)	-12°00′25″.6
Dec (top/left)	-10°42′15″.1
Dec (top/right)	-13°17′59″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	-13°18′17″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	-10°42′35″.4

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