In this image from www.spiegelteam.de you can see what I believe is NGC 6726 and NGC 6727. These two nebulas are simply the brightest, rather white-looking parts of the reflection nebulas surrounding the two embedded stars. I believe NGC 6726 is to the lower right, and NGC 6226 is to the upper left.DavidLeodis wrote:I'm clearly rubbish at spotting things in some APOD images as I cannot definitely see two presumably separate blue reflection nebulae NGC 6726 and 6727 that are marked in the labelled version of the wider field-of-view image as NGC 6726-7 that is brought up through the 'NGC 6726, 6727, and IC 4812' link in the explanation to the APOD (and also through the CHART32 website link in the credit). It all looks like only one nebula to me![]()
In the labelled image it marks Bernes 157 of which in the CHART32 website it states "Bernes 157, a boomerang -shaped dark nebula partly seen in the bottom left corner is 520 light years distant. It stretches around the Corona Australis Nebula like a huge, draping black scarf". Even knowing that I still don't see it and if it had not been mentioned I would never have given the area marked as Bernes 157 a second glance!
As for Bernes 157, this (unfortunately large, 678kb) labelled image by Martin Pugh shows this dark nebula a bit more clearly.
I find it interesting that the two stars HD 176269 and HD 176270, that I talked so much about earlier in this thread, are called a double star in Martin Pugh's image. The double star even has its own name, BRS 014.
Ann