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Hidden in plain sight between the Pointers, Rigel Kentaurus and Hadar, is this intriguing nebula known as RCW 85.
As far as I can tell mine is only the 3rd image of this target.
Resembling the famous Devils’ Tower from Close Encounters, and dim as as coal mine on a dark night, this is Ha rich, has some S2 and purportedly O3, (but after an entire night at Binx4, I still couldn’t get a signal!).
So much as I would like to have made a tricolour NB image from my bortle 7 backyard, this HaRGB will have to suffice.
Andy Campbell, Melbourne- Australia, July 2021
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About this Nebula
The infrared star group [DBS2003] 88 is embedded in RCW 85 according to Dutra and colleagues. According to the Georgelins, RCW 83 and RCW 85 are the brightest parts of a diffuse region to the galactic east of the Cen OB1 association and that may be an extension of it. Contains the infrared star group [DBS2003] 88.
Dad, after this can we throw dirt in MY window?
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