I'm not sure if this nebulous region has an official (or unofficial) common name, but it strikes me as a snake leaping out of the grass. And being in the Vulpecula (Latin: "Little Fox") Constellation, I envisage this as a dispay of cosmic wildlife face-off.
This is a reasonably difficult target for my location as it is quite low on the Northern Horizon and crosses directly through my local light dome. I also haven't had good enough weather to capture nearly enough data to make a clean image. I want at least 2x as much Ha and at least 3-4 times as much OIII and SII. But given the deterioration of my local conditionsas we enter Summer, that data acquisition might have to waitfor another year.
For reference this is what my stacked channels look like. The OIII is weak but present, and significant exposure time is needed to bring it forth.
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