Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)
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vdB14, vdB15, and Sh2-202, Charles Bracken
vdB14, vdB15, and Sh2-202
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Sitting almost adjacent to the Soul Nebula, Sh2-202 is the very faint emission nebula at upper right in this image. It was discovered by Vera Fedorovna Gaze and Grigory Abramovich Shajn in 1952 from the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. he dust lanes within Sh2-202 are LDN1383 through 1386, plus a few uncatalogued bits around the edges.

On its eastern edge, and presumably part of the same cloud, are the reflection nebulae vdB 14 and 15, shown here at center. At first I thought the small HII region at bottom-center, just east (left) of vdB15, was uncatalogued, but it is an infrared source noted in the IRAS data and later entered as WB 491 (Wouterloot & Brand 1989).

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vdB14, vdB15, and Sh2-202, Charles Bracken