Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  IC 2944  ·  IC 2948  ·  The star λCen  ·  lambda Cen nebula
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Lambda Centauri Nebula IC 2944 & IC 2948 aka Running Chicken Nebula, DavidLJ
Lambda Centauri Nebula IC 2944 & IC 2948 aka Running Chicken Nebula
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Lambda Centauri Nebula IC 2944 & IC 2948 aka Running Chicken Nebula

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Lambda Centauri Nebula IC 2944 & IC 2948 aka Running Chicken Nebula, DavidLJ
Lambda Centauri Nebula IC 2944 & IC 2948 aka Running Chicken Nebula
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Lambda Centauri Nebula IC 2944 & IC 2948 aka Running Chicken Nebula

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Taken over two nights of 18th and 19th March 2015. The LRGB approach was discarded in favour of HaRGB because the imaged Ha was much more sharply defined than the imaged Lum.

RGB - each 12 x 5 minutes

Ha - 6 x 10 minutes

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Lambda Centauri Nebula IC 2944 & IC 2948 aka Running Chicken Nebula, DavidLJ