Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Corona Australis (CrA)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6723  ·  NGC 6726  ·  The star εCrA
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NGC6729, Geoff Healey
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NGC 6729 is a reflection/emission nebula in the constellation Corona Australis. It was discovered by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt in 1861.[1]

This fan-shaped nebula opens from the star R Coronae Australis toward the star T CrA to the south-east. R CrA is a pre-main-sequence star in the Corona Australis molecular complex, one of the closer star-forming regions of the galaxy at a distance of 130 pc

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NGC6729, Geoff Healey