Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  IC 2944  ·  IC 2948  ·  The star λCen  ·  lam Cen Nebula
IC2944 - Running Chicken Nebula, Daniel
IC2944 - Running Chicken Nebula
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IC2944 - Running Chicken Nebula

IC2944 - Running Chicken Nebula, Daniel
IC2944 - Running Chicken Nebula
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IC2944 - Running Chicken Nebula

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IC2944 or commonly known as the Running Chicken Nebula. I was never really that keen on this target but I'm a bit limited with my sky options at the moment so I decided to go for it anyway. I have to admit, after spending a few hours processing it I've come to quite enjoy it. It is begging for some Ha data though.

I also managed to stuff up the alignment between my Lum and RGB data sets, I didn't notice that my platesolve was a tiny bit off for my luminance so I missed that nicely detailed area above lambda centauri. Oh well lesson learned. I'm also starting to really seehow easily it is to clip stars with a sensor that doesn't have huge full well capacity.

Technical Stuff

-Williams optics 80mm refractor

-EQ5 pro

QHY183m + Orion LRGB filters

-Captured in N.I.N.A and processed in pixinsight

-94 x 120s Lum

-38 x 120s R

-34 x 120s G

-37 x 120s B

-7 hours total integration

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IC2944 - Running Chicken Nebula, Daniel