The Tulip is a bit lost in the surrounding cloud of (mostly) hydrogen and dust, but I think you can see where the name comes from. This is a narrowband image consisting of Hydrogen-
The Tulip Nebula is in the constellation Cygnus and about 6,000 lightyears from Earth. The image was captured in May of 2013 at Wa-
Scope: AP Starfire 142 at f/7.5
Mount: AP Mach1
Camera: QSI 583wsg at –