We present an hitherto unknown cometary reflection nebula {a = 20^h18^m3, δ+37°00') associated with a dense dust cloud. A bright, compact Herbig-Haro oject is embedded in its brightest part. The highly reddened illuminating star of about 3-5 M„, located near the apex of the nebula, emits a collimated bipolar flow at high velocity, whose blueshifted stream feeds the HH object. The redshifted stream can be traced toward the interior of the dark cloud, where the density exceeds 10^5 cm^-3.
We present various observations of the bipolar nebula No. 14 from the list of Neckel and Staude (1984): CCD images at 7 different wavelengths, spectroscopy at intermediate resolution between 4800 A and 9500 A, and CCD stellar polarimetry. The centra! star turns out to be a "Trapezium" consisting of four stars of spectral types between B0.5 and A5. The nebular spectrum is that of a low
excited HII region, but in addition it exhibits a strong Ol 8446 line excited by Lyman β fluorescence. This requires a very high optical depth in Hα γ ≥ 1000) in the emitting region, which has been spatially resolved in NS 14. The stellar polarimetry, combined with the surface polarimetry of Scarrott et al. (1986), indicates that the polarization in the nebula can be explained by pure scattering
alone.
Recent observational results are reviewed, concerning circumstellar
disks, the structure of the flow in highly collimated jets, the nature of Herbig-Haro objects and the interrelation between jets, cometary reflection nebulae and bipolar molecular outflows.