Here is another nice pair of van den Bergh objects, though very different from
the previous pair I shot, vdB 14 and 15. This image has three Barnard objects as well.
At top is vdB 31. The dark nebula behind it are B26, B27, and B28. B26 and B27 are the bottom two ‘lobes,’ and B28 is the top. I’m not sure if this grouping quite counts as a cometary globule, but the overall structure is similar.vdB 29 is the reflection nebula toward the bottom of the image. To its left is another reflection nebula that has no catalog entry that I can find. It seems like Beverly Lynds would have picked it up in the LBN, but it could have also been mistaken for lens flare. It’s definitely not, as you can see the molecular cloud behind it, plus it’s somewhat asymmetric.
Comments