NGC 2626

NGC 2626 is a stunning blue reflection nebula in the southern Milky Way, nestled beside an obscuring dust cloud and framed by reddish hydrogen emission.

This beautiful portrait of the nebula was captured by a Planewave CDK24 telescope at Heaven's El Sauce Observatory in Chile. It combines red, green, and blue channels with luminance data to create a detailed and natural representation of the nebula.

The raw data was curated by a remote telescope service and then combined, calibrated, and processed by Richard Leighton to produce the final image.