IC2948 The Running Tulip (Mark Sandford)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Centaurus (Cen) · Contains: IC 2948 · lambda Cen nebula

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IC2948 The Running Tulip

IC2948, usually known as the Running Chicken, or more accurately the Lambda Centaurus nebula, is a really big target which doesn't fit in my usual FOV. So I picked my favourite part here, which to me looks like a tulip flower. Of course my favourite details are the Bok globules in the upper right quadrant, I took some care to ensure they were sharpened just enough.

HOO rendering yielded a fairly standard red/pink palette, but I decided to get a bit creative in adding some less-conventional colours. I like the result, something just a bit different! Also tried a new technique for RGB stars, taking hundreds of 20sec exposures and selecting only the best sixty or so to stack for each channel, I think the result is a nice balance. The wonderful Screen Blend mode in Photoshop did the final blending of the images, gotta say it's way better than what I can achieve in PixInsight.

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Description: A bit less green and a tad more sharpening to Bok globules

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	4331737
PixInsight job	H4Q6MX4ZIK8ZQ2GJYCFOPVUKY0KS5DUQ
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

RA (center)	11h39m57s.663
RA (top/left)	11h43m51s.250
RA (top/right)	11h36m01s.171
RA (bottom/right)	11h35m59s.347
RA (bottom/left)	11h43m59s.420

Dec (center)	-63°32′59″.99
Dec (top/left)	-63°14′56″.31
Dec (top/right)	-63°15′25″.10
Dec (bottom/right)	-63°50′39″.28
Dec (bottom/left)	-63°50′10″.11

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