Plate XXI — If Love Could Write (the Inkwell Nebula)
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Observing note
Seen from an office window after everyone else has gone home, this is the one that keeps people at the eyepiece. The dark cloud takes years of patient exposure to show its shape, and when it does, the bright knot at the tip looks exactly like a pen about to commit something to paper. A northern summer field for the slow burn and the late shift.
