Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Puppis (Pup)  ·  Contains:  HD60671  ·  HD60752  ·  HD60795  ·  HD60839
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CG4 Nebula, Georg N. Nyman
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CG4 Nebula

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CG4 Nebula

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This very strange nebula of the Southern Skies, CG4, is sometimes called "Cosmic Monster" and by others "Hand of God"...anyway, it is a rather unusual shape for a nebula but very interesting. Not very bright - this image is the result of over 13 hours of image aquisition in Ha, R, G and B. The data come from Telescope.Live from their CDK24 in Chile and the camera was a FLI-PL9000.

My processing was done with PixInsight and finishing in Photoshop. The stars come from a separate processing of RGB data, Ha was entered separately into the RGB image and enhances certain areas of the nebula quite nicely.

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CG4 Nebula, Georg N. Nyman