Kevin first bravo to you for going off the beaten track, neat images!
RCW71 is also known as GUM46 and H559 in Hartungs revised edition, an emission nebula heavily reddened by the Coal Sack. Hartungs notes that it can be seen in a 20cm.
http://galaxymap.org/cgi-bin/details...=4_p20.0xp39.0