UGC 12160 is located 19' SW of mag 5.8 HD 214710 at the eastern edge of cometary-shaped molecular cloud LDN 1251 and associated bright nebula LBN 558. This star-forming region, part of the Cepheus Flare giant molecular cloud complex, contains a number of low-mass YSOs. At 124x (49' field) a very large starless region is centered roughly 8' SW of the 5.8-magnitude star. On images this obscured region extends roughly 45'x15' E-W.

600/800mm - 24" (9/1/16): at 200x; fairly faint, moderately large, elongated 4:3 ~N-S, 0.8'x0.6', diffuse, weak concentration. Based on the DSS, I picked up the core and inner halo and missed the extremely low surface brightness outer halo.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb