CG-4 The Celestial Wrench! (gmadkat)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Puppis (Pup) · Contains: HD60431 · HD60671 · HD60752 · HD60794 · HD60795 · HD60839

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CG-4 The Celestial Wrench!

CG4, which is also sometimes referred to as God’s Hand although it looks like a wrench or the chain chomp monster to me, is one of the cometary globules. It is located about 1300 light-years from Earth. It is located in the constellation of Puppis, about 1,300 light-years away. Its head is some 1.5 light-years in diameter, and its tail is about 8 light-years long. The dusty cloud contains enough material to make several medium sized stars.
The head part of CG4 is a thick cloud of gas and dust, which is only visible because it is illuminated by the light from nearby stars. The radiation emitted by these stars is gradually destroying the head of the globule and eroding away the tiny particles that scatter the starlight. However, the dusty cloud of CG4 still contains enough gas to make several Sun-sized stars and indeed, CG4 is actively forming new stars, perhaps triggered as radiation from the stars powering the Gum Nebula reached CG4.Imaged in LRGB and H Alpha on a shared remote observatory on the RiDK 400 at El Sauce, Obstech, Chile
Integration time: 37 hours
Thank you to Mike at throughlightandtime.com for the preprocessing.
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Astrometry.net job	6013174
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	07h33m34s.577
RA (top/left)	07h35m40s.197
RA (top/right)	07h31m27s.896
RA (bottom/right)	07h31m27s.278
RA (bottom/left)	07h35m42s.881

Dec (center)	-46°57′23″.63
Dec (top/left)	-46°36′14″.75
Dec (top/right)	-46°36′25″.30
Dec (bottom/right)	-47°18′24″.14
Dec (bottom/left)	-47°18′14″.38

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