Lacerta from Cherry Springs

This was supposed to be Lacerta. Well, it is Lacerta, but the constellation is lost in the Milky Way. The North America nebula (NGC7000) can be seen in the lower left, Cepheus is in the center to lower right with the circular H-alpha region containing the Elephant’s Trunk nebula (IC1396) marking the left end of Cepheus (what I usually think of as the “bottom” so this is kind of on it’s side). The bright star in the lower left is Deneb, the tail of Cygnus the Swan, and in the upper right is most of Cassiopeia.

So…Lacerta is in there, roughly in the left center trailing down into the Milky Way and hiding there. I guess that’s appropriate since Lacerta is the lizard, so hiding is kind of natural.