SH2-101 Tulip Nebula - a photo on Flickriver

Sharpless 101 (Sh2-101) is a H II region emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is sometimes also called the Tulip Nebula because it appears to resemble the outline of a tulip when imaged photographically. It was catalogued by astronomer Stewart Sharpless in his 1959 catalog of nebulae. It lies at a distance of about 6,000 light-years (5.7×10^16 km; 3.5×10^16 mi) from Earth.

Sh2-101, at least in the field seen from earth, is in close proximity to microquasar Cygnus X-1, site of one of the first suspected black holes. Cygnus X-1 is the brighter of the two stars (lower star) in close vertical proximity just to the left of Sh2-101 in the image presented here.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh2-101

Taken at St. Joseph, IL on 9/9/2017

Image type: Narrowband HA-SII-OIII (RGB) 8x300ea.
Hardware: AT8RC, QHY9
Software: Nebulosity, CCDStack, Photoshop CS6, Images Plus

Taken on: September 19, 2017

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