RCW 61 (George Yendrey)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Centaurus (Cen) · Contains: HD100099 · HD100296 · HD100323 · HD308532 · HD308533 · HD308612 · HD308613 · HD308614 · HD308615 · HD308620 · HD99944

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RCW 61, also known as GUM 41.First identified in 1955 by Colin Gum, an astronomer in Australia, RCW 61 / Gum 41 is around 7,300 light years from the Earth in the southern constellation Centaurus, home to a number of nebulae in which young stars are being formed.RCW 61 / Gum 41, for all its immense size, is just a small portion of a larger cosmic structure, the Lambda Centauri Nebula, known colloquially to astronomers as the Running Chicken Nebula.

As true for most southern sky objects, not much has been posted concerning this nebula.

This is from a new Telescope Live dataset with the Planewave CDK24 telescope and QHY600M camera at the El Sauce Observatory in Chile. RCW is depicted here in a SHO palette, with a Lum layer (base on the Ha master) added in late in the process.

The acquisition occurred over several days starting in Mid-January 2022. For Brevity, I entered the acquisition date as the last day of that four day period

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	7098589
PixInsight job	44G965YAHQB8QVEOZSEOHGTMOYQDBPZQ
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	11h30m29s.518
RA (top/left)	11h28m13s.618
RA (top/right)	11h32m43s.970
RA (bottom/right)	11h32m43s.922
RA (bottom/left)	11h28m17s.466

Dec (center)	-63°48′45″.68
Dec (top/left)	-63°58′29″.86
Dec (top/right)	-63°58′54″.14
Dec (bottom/right)	-63°38′53″.25
Dec (bottom/left)	-63°38′28″.28

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