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Here’s my latest shot of the Flying Bat & Squid Nebula (SH2-129). I tried this target a couple years ago but this time I devoted 24 hours solely to the Oiii channel so the squid can easily be seen.

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November 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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📸 Ou4: The Giant Squid Nebula
📷 Credit: Massimo Di Fusco
📅 July 5, 2025

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A deep-sky image showing the sprawling, faintly glowing structure of the Giant Squid Nebula (Ou4) with long, thin, blue-tinted lobes resembling a squid's arms stretching diagonally across the frame. The nebula is immersed in a wider field of reddish hydrogen emission from Sh2-129. Near the center is the bright triple star system HR8119, thought to power the outflow. Countless background stars are scattered across the dark sky.
July 5, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Astronomy Picture from 07/10/2020

Ou4: A Giant Squid in a Flying Bat

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A stunning telescopic image reveals the Giant Squid Nebula (Ou4) nestled within the larger Flying Bat Nebula (Sh2-129) in the constellation Cepheus. The vibrant blue-green Squid Nebula, a bipolar outflow from a triple star system (HR8119), contrasts beautifully against the reddish hydrogen emission of the Bat Nebula. This composite image, created from 55 hours of narrowband data, spans 3 degrees of the sky, showcasing the incredible detail of these cosmic structures approximately 2,300 light-years away.
March 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Astronomy Picture from 11/09/2015

A Giant Squid in the Flying Bat

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150911.htm<a href="/hashtag/SquidNebula" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#SquidNebulai#FlyingBatNebulaa#Ou4u#Sh2129 #Cepheus##DeepSkyObjectk#Astrophotographyt#Nebula #Spacea#Astronomys#Cosmologyo#GiantNebulan#HR8119 #TripleStarSystemarSystem
Stunning telescopic image showcasing the Squid Nebula (Ou4) nestled within the Flying Bat Nebula (Sh2-129) in the Cepheus constellation. The image, a composite of 20 hours of data, reveals the Squid Nebula's distinct bipolar shape and its possible location within Sh2-129, approximately 2,300 light-years away and spanning nearly 50 light-years. The reddish hues represent hydrogen emission from Sh2-129, while the blue-green highlights doubly ionized oxygen in Ou4, potentially an outflow driven by the triple star system HR8119.
February 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM