BRC4

BRC 4

SIMBAD literature search shows several papers:

[1][Bibliographic references]

This one has:

• Known IRAS source associated with it.
• Known sample of YSOs?... need to read the literature a bit more.
• There is a lot of optical emission, which is likely from gas. Is this an HII region?
• But, it looks cool.

The image below is constructed using: blue = DPOSS2 (blue) green = 2MASS J red = 2MASS Ks

And the Preview image generated by Aladdin

--Ali 15:09, 25 January 2012 (PST)