Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  IC 2872  ·  IC 2944  ·  IC 2948  ·  NGC 3766  ·  Pearl Cluster  ·  The star λCen  ·  lam Cen Nebula
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IC2944 - Running Chicken Nebula, Daniel Faull
IC2944 - Running Chicken Nebula
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IC2944 - Running Chicken Nebula

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

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The Running Chicken Nebula - IC2944 - is an emission nebula around 6500 light years away. It's rougly 140 light years wide and is a reasonably large target for southern skies.

After being plagued with flats issues for a few months, the solution resolved itself in retaking my dark library. I had LRGB + SHO of this target from a few months back that didn't end up processing too well, so I had another go with the corrected darks and it all worked much better.

This is my first attempt at combining LRGB stars with a narrowband image. I also made much greater use of color masks and curves transformation than I have in the past to boost the image.

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Description: Reduced overall brightness

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Description: Reprocessed from scratch using new techniques learnt over the past year

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IC2944 - Running Chicken Nebula, Daniel Faull