NGC 6726, 27, & 29 (Jeff McClure)

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

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NGC 6726, 27, & 29

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NGC 6726, 27, & 29

NGC 6726, 27, & 29.The two bright objects to the right of the image are NGC 6726 and NGC 6727, while the two smaller vertical stars above them and the swirling clouds of interstellar gas are NGC 2729. The twin bright stars in the center of the image are HR 7169 and HR 7170. All are about 430 light-years from Earth in Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, visible only from the southern hemisphere.The dark areas in the image are not the depths of space, but rather are part of a dense molecular cloud located between us and the central portion of our galaxy. Most of the illuminated nebula appears blue because the bright stars illuminating it are behind or within the nebula and their light is refracted much as the sun's light is refracted by our atmosphere, creating what appears to be a blue sky. The red areas are parts of the molecular cloud that are close enough to an energetic star to fluoresce in the red frequency emitted by hydrogen molecules when highly energized in a vacuum (hydrogen-alpha).The image is composed of 720 minutes of six, 900-second exposures each through luminance, red, green, and blue filters using a Planewave CDK 20” telescope and an FLI PL09000 camera from the iTelescope facility at Siding Springs, NWS, AU. I processed the captured data into the final image using Astropixel Processor v. 1.083.2, Luminar Neo HDR Merge, and Adobe Lightroom Classic v. 11.5.

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RA (center)	19h01m08s.822
RA (top/left)	19h01m10s.310
RA (top/right)	19h02m56s.621
RA (bottom/right)	19h01m07s.286
RA (bottom/left)	18h59m20s.608

Dec (center)	-37°01′43″.38
Dec (top/left)	-37°24′37″.60
Dec (top/right)	-36°54′01″.11
Dec (bottom/right)	-36°38′51″.59
Dec (bottom/left)	-37°09′20″.10

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