Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  The star 68 Cyg
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Sharpless 119, also known as the Clamshell Nebula, is a large complex of emission nebulosity in Cygnus, about 2 degrees east of the much more famous North America Nebula.
It is located just around 68 Cygni, a bright star of magnitude 5 and one of the stars responsible for ionizing the surrounding gas. It also filled with dark Bok globules and dark dust lanes annotated in the LDN and LBN database.

The image was captured over several nites in Bortle 8 skies using a new Optolong L-ultimate 3nm Ha/Oiii filter which did eliminate the star halos common with the L-extreme filter and produced good detail of the dark globules along with a hint of the blue Oiii region.

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