Final 9 Panel Mosaic in Narrow Band of IC 2944 The Running Chicken in Centaurus and PK 294-00.1 (Ian Parr)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Centaurus (Cen) · Contains: IC 2872 · IC 2944 · IC 2948 · The star λ Cen · lam Cen Nebula

Final 9 Panel Mosaic in Narrow Band of IC 2944 The Running Chicken in Centaurus and PK 294-00.1, Ian Parr

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Final 9 Panel Mosaic in Narrow Band of IC 2944 The Running Chicken in Centaurus and PK 294-00.1

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Final 9 Panel Mosaic in Narrow Band of IC 2944 The Running Chicken in Centaurus and PK 294-00.1

IC 2944, also known as the Running Chicken Nebula, or the Lambda Centauri Nebula is an open cluster with an associated emission nebula found in the constellation Centaurus, near the star Lambda Centauri. It features Bok globules, which are frequently a site of active star formation. However, no evidence for star formation has been found in any of the globules in IC 2944.
The globules were discovered in by astronomer A. David Thackeray in 1950 and are now known as Thackeray's Globules

And there's a bit of Where's Wally in there too .. find the planetary nebula (PK 294-00.1)

A crop from a 9 panel mosaic of 18.5 hours (221x5 minutes frames) of exposures taken in 2020 and given the old 2023 'AI sure changed things' treatment.

Word from the wise.

Don't Drizzle x2 for a large mosaic unless you think it's really worth it!

9 panels and everything took 4x longer ... processing this ran overnight and most of today on a 24 Core Threadripper with 128 Gb Ram added a spike to my power bill.

As before initial, BX for star correction only, and then a gentle star reduction on the channels.

Non-Stellar sharpening was only used very gently at the end just before NoiseX and after LHEQ.

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