Nebula VDB 31 in Auriga

by: Tom Davis/Novapix
Reference: a-neb98-20031
Date: 2009-12-03

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.

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