This portion of the Gamma Cygni Nebula, IC 1318, is half of what is often called the Butterfly Nebula, which does sort look like a butterfly from 4,000 light years away.
The star at the center is HD194789, a blue-white B6 subgiant only 1066 light years away. The bright star upper right is HD 194558, a K2 subgiant only 658 light years away. These stars are thousands of light years in front of the nebula. They give a sense of the depth of a view through the telescope.
The image is 11x1200" with the Atik 460EXC through an Astronomik CLS filter and the 203mm Synta-ONTC Newtonian at f/4.95.
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