Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)
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The Devils Tower - RCW85, Andy 01
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The Devils Tower - RCW85

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Hidden in plain sight between the Pointers, Rigel Kentaurus and Hadar, is this intriguing nebula known as RCW 85.

John Ebersole brought this object to my attention first, https://www.astrobin.com/full/d2r6vm/0/ and as far as I can tell mine is only the 3rd image of this target.

Resembling the famous Devils' Tower from Close Encounters, and dim as as coal mine on a dark night, this is Ha rich, has some S2 and purportedly O3, (but after an entire night at Binx4, I still couldn't get a signal!).

The guys at Cielaustal in Chile did though, but it took them 100+ hrs exposure with a 20" CDK! http://www.cielaustral.com/galerie/photo117.htm

So much as I would like to have made a tricolour NB image from my bortle 7 backyard, this HaRGB will have to suffice

Galaxy Map says - "The infrared star group [DBS2003] 88 is embedded in RCW 85 according to Dutra and colleagues. According to the Georgelins, RCW 83 and RCW 85 are the brightest parts of a diffuse region to the galactic east of the Cen OB1 association and that may be an extension of it. Contains the infrared star group [DBS2003] 88.

So maybe a target for someone with an IR filter?

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