NGC 6727 LRGB

Corona Australis is a reflection nebula of dust clouds and clusters of bright young stars in the southern sky. It is located between the constellations of Sagittarius and Scorpius. In Latin, the name means the Southern Crown. It is the southern counterpart of Corona Borealis, or the Northern Crown. It is sometimes associated with the myth of Dionysus. In the story, Corona Australis represents the crown the god placed in the sky after freeing his mother Semele from the god of the underworld, Hades. The Ancient Greeks saw Corona Australis as a wreath rather than a crown.

 

Corona Australis contains one of the closest star-forming regions to our Solar System—a dusty dark nebula known as the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, lying about 430 light years away.

The image contains the original luminance data from May 2015, and the final RGD data from June 2015.

Equipment Used:

 

Telescope: 10 inch RCOS, F9 Ritchey-Chrétien configuration

Mount: Astro-Physics AP-900 Mount

Camera: SBIG STL-11000 CCD (-20 C)

Image scale: 0.83"/pix

Processing: CCDStack and Photoshop

 

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