Cocoon Nebula / IC 5146 / OCL 213 Taken 2010/07/13 from Sedro-Woolley, Wa. Image center RA: 21h53m54.43s DE:+47°19'00.0" Celestial north up and celestial east left. The experts say the nebula is some 4000 light years away and 15 light years across in the constillation Cygnus. Barnard 168 is the dark section above the nebula. The star field of course is part of our milky way. The reddish color is from ionized gasses, and the blue tone is mainly from reflection of blue star light. 7 X 20min. exposures and stacked with Nebulosity. Aligned and stacked with Nebulosity Older Mountain Instruments MI-250 tangent arm mount. Borg 77Ach guide scope with an Orion Starshoot autoguider using PHD guiding Borg 100ED with .85 reducer