anyone know what this is ? Small object in Rosette

[glowingturnip]

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone would know what this is ?  Found it in my Rosette image - I'm thinking a Cometary Globule (a type of Bok Globule but with the tail swept away by stellar wind ), but then it's brighter than all the Boks are, and the tail isn't parallel to the other trunks that show the solar wind direction.  A tadpole, perhaps ?

 

 

The full image is here if you're interested, click through for HD:

 

Cheers,

Stuart 

[andrew s]

Hi Stuart, have you checked other people's images to see if it's there?  Worth doing and getting a confirmation image if not as you may have discovered something new.

Regards Andrew 

[carastro]

It's in my image from January:

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[newbie alert]

Great image Stuart, I'm going to have to check mine now, thou it won't be as sharp as yours

[upahill]

Not visible in mine but I lack the level of clarity you have. Great image!

[geoflewis]

Superb image Stuart. I have no idea what it is, but you got me checking my Rosette from Jan 2018 and it's there as a faint smudge, best seen in the Ha stack....

Cheers, Geof

[MarsG76]

I do not know what that is, as it also showed up on my images, but I know that it's one great image...

[Cozzy]

This APOD shows it well. from March 2014

 

Edited May 31, 2019 by Cozzy

[glowingturnip]

thanks all ! 

It's definitely there, isn't it - wonder what it is.

There's an HH object in there too btw: