The Razorback (LDN 1610 &1609) and the Little Tulip (LBN 902)

Sandwiched between Dreyer’s Nebula (IC 447) and the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264), the Razorback and Little Tulip (my names) live a quiet, unassuming life unbothered by scientists or astrophotographers.

I gave these objects their names (I certainly don’t expect anyone else to use them) because the combination of LDN 1610 & 1609 looks like a razorback hog to me and LBN 902 resembles a smaller version of the Tulip Nebula (Sh2-101):

 A feral pig and the Tulip Nebula in Cygnus

I can find no scholarly articles on anything in this image. Even the statistical databases have nothing on it other than its location. Only Beverly Lynds seems to have paid much attention to this area when she documented the bright parts in her 1965 Catalogue of Bright Nebulae (LBN) and the dark parts in her 1962 Catalogue of Dark Nebulae (LDN), which she compiled from photographic plates taken as part of the Palomar Sky Survey in the 1950s.

Given its proximity to the Cone Nebula, a reasonable guess for its distance might be 2,700 light years.