Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Corona Australis (CrA)  ·  Contains:  IC 4812  ·  NGC 6723  ·  NGC 6726  ·  NGC 6727  ·  NGC 6729  ·  The star εCrA  ·  eps CrA
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Corona Australis - The Southern Crown, Jeff Coldrey
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Corona Australis - The Southern Crown

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Corona Australis - The Southern Crown

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Corona Australis is a broad dusty region spanning about 1.5 degrees of sky. It's located about 420 light years away and is understood to have formed when several bright stars became entangled with a dark cloud of dust. The cloud is a star-forming region, with clusters of young stars embedded inside, and consists of three nebulous regions – NGC 6726, NGC 6727, and NGC 6729.

I have reused ASI094mc RGB data from Sept 2018, blending with ASI1600 Luminance data from August 2019. It feels like I've been tinkering with this image for ever, trying a variety of methods to bring out the dust. But it's time to move on!

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Corona Australis - The Southern Crown, Jeff Coldrey