R Corona Australis panorama by Kfir Simon

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R Corona Australis panorama

The region of R Corona Australis showing the nebulae:
NGC 6726,6727,6729 IC 4812 and the globular NGC 6723.

The image shows 1.5deg X 3 Deg of the sky.

2 frame masaic.

Imaged with the 16" f3.75 Dream Astrograph.
Apogee Alta U-16M camera.
L-RGB image

Each frame
Luminance - 60 min
RGB 10 minutes per channel (BIN 2)

(Total of 3 HRS)

Imaged from Tivoli farm in Namibia May 2015.

Apogee USB/Net
full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto

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Sakib		30-May-2015 00:33
Wow I never get tired of seeing this region, I don't even mind that it's upside down! The galaxy to the south is PGC 62700. The dusty dark nebula near the right is SL 42. I find it interesting that nobody ever takes Ha for this area?

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