If you’ve got a large (8- or 10-inch) scope, you might be able to tease out a mirror-image extension of that curved neck, which turns the swan into the Greek letter Omega (Ω), hence the nebula ...

High at northern latitudes lies a spectacular and unique nebula you should observe if you're not already familiar with it. The Iris Nebula (NGC 7023) is an odd reflection nebula in Cepheus ...

His parade was part of the inauguration of the Leviathan of Parsonstown, the six-foot mirror that ... of the most distant objects then known, the nebulae, which he did to general approval ...