This beautiful star forming region lies in the southern constellation Centaurus.

Imaged with the Boren-Simon 8" F2.8 POWERNEWT Astrograph.
SBIG ST8300M with FW5 filterwheel with BAADER LRGB filters
LRGB with 50min LUM and 6 min for each color total of 68 minutes.

Imaged from Tivoli farm in Namibia June 2011