The "Pipe Fish Nebula" LDN914
Emission, dark, star clouds, etc. in Cygnus
Uploaded 8/11/25

 

            
Just south of the more
            famous North America nebula in Cygnus, we find a very peculiar
            snake like dark nebula called LDN914. To me, it looks very much
            like a "Pipe fish", a family of fish which evolved
            into sea horses in the Miocene. The head is to the lower right,
            and tail upper left. This suprising nebula is almost never imaged,
            and always over looked because of the nearby more splashy objects.
            Speaking of splashy, see that large cluster on the right side?
            I couldnt find a name for it, its possibly only a bright knot
            in the Milky Way stars.

            
Technical Data: Samyang
            135mm f/2, ASI2600mm + IDAS NBZ filter, RGB = 2 hours total,
            Happy Jack, Az.

            
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Instrument:  Samnyang 135mm f/2 @ f/2.4
Mount:  Home Made GEM
Camera:  Color CMOS ASI2600 MC Pro
Guider: ASI mini  w/50mm piggyback refractor
Exposure:  120m ( 5 min subs) 1h each filter
Location:  Happy Jack, Arizona, Elevation:  7000 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = 2 arcsec , Transparency 9/10
Outside Temperature:  45 F

Image Processing Tools: 
Maxim DL6:  Calibration
PixInsight:  Alignment, Stacking, Star Removal
Photoshop CS2:  Curves, Color Correction, Cleanup

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