Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Vela (Vel)
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RCW 33, 32, 27 and part of CED 106, David Elmore
RCW 33, 32, 27 and part of CED 106
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RCW 33, 32, 27 and part of CED 106

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RCW 33, 32, 27 and part of CED 106, David Elmore
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RCW 33, 32, 27 and part of CED 106

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Here is a 6° tall field centered at about -41° declination.  This is so far south that even from my telescope in New Mexico the full field of the scope never cleared the south wall of the observatory so the left side has been cropped.  Were these objects farther north they would be in familiar catalogues such as Sharpless or even have names, but in Stellarium they have only RCW designation.  According to the galaxy map web site,  Alex Rodgers, Colin Campbell, and John Whiteoak, working at Australia's Mount Stromlo observatory under the direction of Dutch-American astronomer Bart Boy published their nebula catalog in 1960 containing 182 objects in the Southern Hemisphere The RCW catalog is largely an expansion of Colin Gum's 1955 catalog.

Of additional interest in this dual narrowband (Hydrogen-alpha red, Oxygen III teal) image is the beautiful emission on the bottom left.  Again if farther north this would probably be well known but is just part of the very large CED (Cederblad Catalog of Bright Diffuse Nebulae) 106 nebula that extends even further south.

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RCW 33, 32, 27 and part of CED 106, David Elmore