IC 1284

IC 1284 (bottom left) and NGC 6590 (lower-mid right)

There is hardly any background sky in this very dusty part of the southern Milky Way.  These beautiful objects can be found about halfway between the Trifid Nebula (M20) and the Swan or Omega Nebula (M17).  Blueish reflection nebulae and brownish dark interstellar cloud appear to be superposed on the pink emission nebula.

Data from El Sauce, Chile 17” Planewave CDK