This last New Moon has been a bit naughty, with constant weather changes, condensation problems on the instruments and even a blackout. In a week of photography I only saved 5 hours of data but I am pleased with the result. IC 5146, the Cocoon nebula, is a subject with a lot of detail, a small cluster surrounded by a pink cocoon-shaped nebula, itself connected to a system of dark nebulae that interpose themselves hiding and drawing shapes in that part of the sky. You can see it very close here, but if you moved a little further away you would see a long arm of dust obscuring the stars from this cocoon.

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