NGC 2626 is a spectacular detail within the broad
panorama of the Vela-Puppis section of the southern Milky
Way. As a reflection nebula, it receives most, but not all, of
its light from an embedded B1 V star, CD [40¡4432
(Herbst 1975a). Herbst gives V , B[V , and U[B values of
10.02, ]0.46, and [0.41 mag, respectively, for the star.
NGC 2626 is contained within the large H II region RCW
27 (Rodgers, Campbell, & Whiteoak 1960). A major contributor
to the ionization of RCW 27 is the O star
HD 73882, 40@ west of NGC 2626. A distance of 1.0^0.1
kpc has been found for the young stars associated with
RCW 27 (Pettersson & Reipurth 1994; Herbst 1975b).
NGC 2626 is joined to a dark dust cloud cataloged as DC
259.94[0.0 by Hartley et al. (1986). Several Ha emissionline
stars were already known in the surroundings of NGC
2626 (Pettersson & Reipurth 1994). Some are faint and are
likely T Tauri stars. A Herbig-Haro object (HH 132) and an
IRAS point source (08337[4028) were identiÐed in the
region by Ogura (1990) (Cited from here )