Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Puppis (Pup)  ·  Contains:  HD60431  ·  HD60795
CG4 Cometary Globule, Debra Ceravolo
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CG4 Cometary Globule

CG4 Cometary Globule, Debra Ceravolo
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CG4 Cometary Globule

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The mouth of the beast CG4 aka 'the hand of God' appears to be gobbling up stars and reaching for a little galaxy. In reality, it's a star forming gas region in the Milky Way about 1300 light years away. The little galaxy is huge and more than 100 million light years away.

I recently re-processed this object using Russell Crowman's new BlurXterminator plug-in for Pixinsight. Originally captured in a seismically active area in central Chile which made the stars blurred and bloated in good seeing conditions. So I was surprised and delighted this deconvolution fixed the stars and brought out more structure in the dust. Image acquisition by Peter Ceravolo using his prototype 280mm f/5 astrograph.

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CG4 Cometary Globule, Debra Ceravolo