The Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146) is in the constellation Cygnus. Cygnus is in the Milky Way. At magnitude 7.2, the Cocoon is not visible to the naked eye.

30 minutes on the Canon Rebel.

In October it is finally getting dark shortly after 8 in south-central Utah.

North (toward Polaris) is up in the photo. The picture was taken with a fully modified Canon Rebel camera (this is my one shot color camera) on a TEC 140 telescope in the Alpenglow-Torrey House Observatory in the dark sky community of Torrey, Utah (Bortle 2-3).

The dome has been stuck. My son, Nick, got it unstuck while he was in Torrey in September.

The ten best of 12 180-second sub-frames were used and stacked in Deep Sky Stacker = 30 minute photo. Unguided, binned 2X2 in the SkyX (to make smaller files for internet transfer), no calibration frames. Processed in Photoshop (CS5).

Location in the night sky of the photo:

Source: Astrometry.net