Image: ESO-R Coronae Australis Complex-Phot-25b-00-hires

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Description: This is a colour photo of a small area of about 12 x 12 arcmin 2 , near the centre of the R Coronae Australis region in the southern Milky Way, obtained with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) (camera) at the 2.2-m MPG/ESO Telescope on La Silla (Chile). It is based on a series of CCD exposures through optical B-, V- and R-filters, here rendered as blue, green and red, respectively. The sky field shown measures approx. 33.7 x 31.9 arcmin 2 (about the diameter of the full moon). . North is up and East is left.
Author: ESO
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