I'm pretty bad at the "keep up with S&T game", so I'm glad you highlighted Scott's article, which looks like it's a "must read" :-).

Not sure where I found out about this object from, but it's one of the few objects I logged on Dec 12th 2015 from the 3 Rivers Foundation's Commanche Spring Astronomy Campus near Crowell, TX.

I wrote of the conditions "Sky transparency is okay. Seeing poor. Very dark! Zodiacal band hints. Thick winter Milky Way"

Of the object itself, I wrote "Best views in 26mm University Optics ortho and 20mm Pentax XW with OIII. Can sense and hold the nebula well with averted, somewhat mottled and thick, but no filaments visible." and made the following rough sketch:
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