This rich region in Scorpius was nicknamed 'The Wolf', as the dark nebula's shape resemblance to a Wolf...
It's officially known as SL 17 and lies close to The Dark Tower in Scorpius.
The whole region is a vast HII cloud as can be seen in the next image (Ha filter used as Luminance...)

Imaged with the 16" f3.75 Dream Astrograph.
Apogee Alta U-16M camera.
Ha-RGB image


Ha - 120 min
RGB 20 minutes each Bin 2x2

(Total of 3 Hrs )

Imaged from Tivoli farm in Namibia July 2013.