Rotten Fish Nebula

This is Lynd's Dark Nebula 1251, known otherwise as the Rotten Fish Nebula. It is approximately 1,100 light years from Earth in the constellation Cepheus. The "fish" is a band of dark dust silhouetted against a bright background of hydrogen gas heated by the combined light of nearby stars.

The data for this image is from Telescope Live's T-23 telescope in Nerpio, Spain, processed by me. I'll be relying on Telescope Live for the next few months as I recover from lower back surgery.