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See the annotated copy below, to get an insight of the multiple objects present in the image.
NGC 1727 is the reddish nebula that embeds an open cluster located at the center of this image. Actually, this image contains several open clusters (NGC 1712, 1722 and 1727) that were studied in 1990 by M. Kubiak. All these clusters, together with NGC 1711 (just a few arc minutes outside this frame to the right), are very young and were formed in about the same time. All these nebulae are located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, on the opposite side of the Tarantula Nebula (see wide field of the LMC, this frame would be located in its lower right border).
Additional Information
Object
Name(s): NGC 1727
Type: Emission Nebula
RA: 04h 52m 13s
Dec: -69º 20’ 20”
Constellation: Doradus
Size (arcmin): 3×5 arcmin
Magnitude: 11.1
Distance: 170,000 ly
Image
Date: 2018-01-01 to 2019-01-26
Location: iTelescope.net, SSO near Coonabarabran, NSW Australia
Size (arcmin): 37×33 arcmin
Telescope: 20” f/6.8 Reflector
Camera: SBIG STX16803 (4096x4096pix)
Guiding: Astrodon MonsterMOAG off-axis guider
Total exposure: 17.5 h (Ha: 8.5h; OIII: 7.5h; RGB: 1.5h)
Processing: CCDStack, Photoshop CC 2021
