Maybe they don't know that Cygnus is from the Greek for swan as you know? It is in the sky right now if you look east south east. On a clear night you can see Deneb with the naked eye.
At midnight it is slap bang in the middle observable portion of the Milky Way. You should be able to see it if you have somewhere nearby that is sufficiently dark or do a long exposure if in town. Point your camera ESE and see if you can get it. :-)
I live in downtown Vancouver and the light pollution is high, especially in the East. The ocean is south west and so there is a break there and mountains in the North but then there are mountains. Haha.
Actually it is kind of blessing because whatever there is to pick out is really easy to find. I am told that soon we will have smacking view of Jupiter. I wish I could take shots of what we see through our local observatory for you.
Yep that's going to be difficult with all that light pollution. Shame.
The mountains would make a lovely foreground for the Milky Way.
That would be interesting. I'm going to try get some photos of Jupiter and it's moons too.