NGC 6726, The Anteater Nebula (Jeff Weiss)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Corona Australis (CrA) · Contains: HD176269 · HD176270 · HD176386 · HD176423 · IC 4812 · NGC 6726 · NGC 6727 · NGC 6729

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NGC 6726, The Anteater Nebula

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NGC 6726, The Anteater Nebula

NGC 6726, "the Anteater Nebula", or really the NGC 6726-6729 Molecular Cloud Complex or star forming region, in Corona Australis is only 500 ly distance from Earth. That is about 1/3 the distance to the more familiar star-forming region, the Orion Nebula. This image focuses on the group of pretty reflection nebulae NGC6726, 6727, 6729 and IC4812 (the region surrounding the bright binary star). The blue color light of all these objects comes from hot stars whose light is reflected/scattered by the cosmic dust.
This is a tight framing of the anteater so you're mainly seeing the parts of the 'animal' near its 'eyes'. The dark nebula to the lower left is Bernes 157 and it extends quite a way out of this framing and is the rest of the creature. You also might imagine that the part of it extending up and to the right of the reflection nebulae is also the anteater's snout. Bernes 157 is one of the dustiest, darkest nebulae in the sky, according to Gary Imm.

The 8hrs of LRGB data were collected in July-Sept 2023 by DeepSkyWest in Rio Hurtato, Chile using their Planewave CDK17 scope.

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RA (center)	19h01m39s.51
RA (top/left)	19h03m23s.23
RA (top/right)	18h59m56s.22
RA (bottom/right)	18h59m55s.14
RA (bottom/left)	19h03m23s.50

Dec (center)	-36°53′30″.6
Dec (top/left)	-36°39′43″.4
Dec (top/right)	-36°39′36″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	-37°07′12″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	-37°07′19″.2

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