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Nebula VDB 31 in Auriga

author: Tom Davis/Novapix

reference: a-neb98-20031

Image Size 300 DPI: 34 * 34 cm

This beautiful blue reflection nebula is number 31 in Sidney van den Bergh's Catalog of Reflection Nebulae, 1966. The adjacent dark nebulae are numbers 26-28 (B27 is just below vdB 31, with B26 below B27 and B28 to the upper right) in Edward E. Barnard's Catalogue of 349 Dark Objects in the Sky, 1927. The other dust clouds may not be cataloged.

Keywords for this photo:

2008 - ASTRONOMY - AURIGA - B26 - B27 - B28 - BARNARD 26 - BARNARD 27 - BARNARD 28 - DARK NEBULA - NEBULA - REFLECTION NEBULA - STAR - VDB 131 -