Corona virus.. ummm... I mean Corona Australis nebula....

[MarsG76]

Hi All,

Sharing another of my completed southern sky object images.... The nebulae in this imaged area are is not a popular group of objects or area of the sky being imaged by amateurs... located in the constellation Corona Australis, between γ and ε Coronae Australis and features NGC6726, NGC6729, NGC6727, NGC6723 and IC4812.
I suspect that the lack of interest is area is dark and not as vibrant as other more well known and popular objects, but the combination of reflection nebulae crossed by dark nebulae made an interesting image IMHO.
I imaged a close up on the blue reflection nebulae back in August 2020 and wanted to expose it at a lower focal length to see what surrounds the blue nebulosity.

This image was exposed with a QHY268M through a simple doublet 80mm refractor (at 500mm focal length) over 2 and a half nights, as a 2 plate (heavily overlapped) mosaic so that I would only need to crop out the most distorted edges, retaining the whole original frame size... exposures started just after midnight on 10 July and being completed on the morning of 12 July 2023, for a total integration time of 17 hours and 20 minutes, 8 hours and 40 minutes per plate.

Thanks for looking, Clear Skies,
MG