Pair IC2038 (NW) and IC2039 (SE) in continuum (top left panel) and in the Hα+[NII] light (top right panel). The image size is 4′×4′. North is towards the top, and east is to the left. Residuals of stars have been masked. The ellipse, whose parameters are given in Table 2, encloses the integration area. The bottom panel shows a two-colour image of the pair (continuum in green and Hα+[N II] in red) that highlights a large numbers of brights HII regions.