Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Corona Australis (CrA)  ·  Contains:  Alfecca Meridiana  ·  Alfecca Meridiana (α CrA)  ·  IC 1297  ·  IC 4812  ·  NGC 6723  ·  NGC 6726  ·  NGC 6727  ·  NGC 6729  ·  PGC 161510  ·  PGC 165793  ·  PGC 208823  ·  PGC 208834  ·  PGC 208852  ·  PGC 208859  ·  PGC 208865  ·  PGC 208868  ·  PGC 208872  ·  PGC 208883  ·  PGC 208892  ·  PGC 208905  ·  PGC 208908  ·  PGC 208914  ·  PGC 208926  ·  PGC 208932  ·  PGC 208941  ·  PGC 208942  ·  PGC 208949  ·  PGC 208952  ·  PGC 208959  ·  PGC 208984  ·  And 352 more.
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
NGC6726 - The Anteater Nebula, Göran Nilsson
Powered byPixInsight

NGC6726 - The Anteater Nebula

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
NGC6726 - The Anteater Nebula, Göran Nilsson
Powered byPixInsight

NGC6726 - The Anteater Nebula

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

NGC 6726/6727 and IC 4812 are blue reflection nebulae caught up in a large cloud of darker nebulosity named Bernes 157. There are also several Herbig–Haro (HH) objects among the blue nebulosity. There is soo much interesting stuff going on here so it is well worth a bit of googling. Gary Imm has recently written an excellent description of what is going on in the Anteater:
https://www.astrobin.com/oqycbm/

This is LRGB data from Telescope Live at The Heaven's Mirror Observatory at 530 meters near Yass in New South Wales. Red is 4 x 10 min, green is 20 x 10 min, blue is 6 x 10 min and Lum is 11 x 10 min. I processed it using the latest XTerminator procedures (BlurXT, StarXT and NoiseXT) in PI and PS.

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

NGC6726 - The Anteater Nebula, Göran Nilsson