Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  IC 2944  ·  IC 2948  ·  The star λ Cen  ·  lam Cen Nebula
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Running Chicken | IC2944 | Caldwell 100, Gurjot Singh
Running Chicken | IC2944 | Caldwell 100
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Running Chicken | IC2944 | Caldwell 100

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Running Chicken | IC2944 | Caldwell 100, Gurjot Singh
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Running Chicken | IC2944 | Caldwell 100

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Location:Backyard, Bortle 5 Mickleham, Victoria, Australia. Gear: Camera - ZWO ASI183MC PRO COOLED  Telescope - Skywatcher quattro 200 Newtonian f/3.9  Optolong UV-IR and L-extreme / aplanatic f/4 coma corrector  Mount - Saxon Heq5 Pro   Guiding:  ZWO Guide scope f/4 with ASI120 mini  Asiair mini   Acquisition: 2 nights of imaging early March 2024  280 X 180 second exposures about 14 hours of l extreme data  115 X 10 second exposures, approx 20 mins for stars.   20 darks  50 offset/Bias   Almost 8 hours of total integration   Processing: Stacked in pixinsight WBPP X2 Drizzle   Pixinsight:  SpectroPhotometric Colour calibration   IntegerResample downsampled by 3  BlurXterminator  NoiseXterminator  Histogram transformation   StarXterminator  Duplicate and create 2 images, HOO and Dual Narrowband   Curves transformation  Blue colour mask for HOO  Curves transformation   Bring back stars   Final touches in Lightroom and exported as jpeg  Clear skies!

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Running Chicken | IC2944 | Caldwell 100, Gurjot Singh