Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  IC 2948
IC 2948 Running Chicken name explained?, Jorge Herreros
IC 2948 Running Chicken name explained?
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IC 2948 Running Chicken name explained?

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IC 2948 Running Chicken name explained?, Jorge Herreros
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IC 2948 Running Chicken name explained?

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I always thought that there should be a better explanation of the name "running chicken" for this nebula.
Thinking that it was discovered in the year 1950, the name must have been put by the image obtained on a photosensitive plate, very different from the images we obtain today.
So I decided to transform the image I obtained earlier to black and white and modified the contrast to resemble an image obtained in the year 1950.
And so I think I found the running chicken, not a rooster, not a hen, but a little chicken running

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IC 2948 Running Chicken name explained?, Jorge Herreros