Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  LBN 598  ·  PK120+18.1  ·  Sh2-174
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SH2-174 The Valentine Rose Nebula, Franklin Marek
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SH2-174 The Valentine Rose Nebula

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SH2-174 The Valentine Rose Nebula, Franklin Marek
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SH2-174 The Valentine Rose Nebula

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This turned out to be a much dimmer object than I anticipated imaging with my C8 with f6.3 reducer.  Tried to get a good "natural" look in SHO palette.  Didn't know how hard to push up the background.  I am hoping I struck a good balance here, although I think I will try again with a reprocessing of the data.

Excellent scientific write-up on this mysterious object and diagram of the proposed creation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/799/2/198/meta

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SH2-174 The Valentine Rose Nebula, Franklin Marek