GREAT BALLS OF FIRE! (Shaun Robertson)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Vela (Vel) · Contains: HD76899 · HD76915 · HD76916 · HD77020 · HD77029 · HD77129 · HD77130 · HD77140 · HD77141 · HD77224 · HD77271 · HD77303 · HD77385 · HD77400 · HD77402 · HD77487 · HD77511 · HD77552 · HD77553 · HD77594 · HD77634 · HD77685 · HD77686 · HD77703 · HD77719 · HD77813 · HD77852 · HD77883 · HD77904 · HD77925 · And 6 more.

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RCW 38 & 40 (GUM 22, 23, 24 & 25)

After what has seemed an eternity and plagues of technical issues with a camera that works perfectly one day and nonsensically the next, this is a fill in project for a few others that continue to be a work in progress.
After poking around a bit I found an area of the Vela region that fit the frame of my Esprit and managed to capture a few little odd balls (flaming, none the less!) and lots of areas of dark dust amongst a large HII region.The dense star cluster RCW 38 glistens about 5,500 light years away in the direction of the constellation Vela (the Sails). RCW 38 is an "embedded" cluster, in that the nascent cloud of dust and gas still envelops its stars. There, young, titanic stars bombard fledgling suns and planets with powerful winds and large amount of light, helped in their devastating task by short-lived, massive stars that explode as supernovae. In some cases, this energetic onslaught cooks away the matter that may eventually form new planetary systems. Scientists think that our own Solar System emerged from such a dramatic environment (eso.org)

12 hours of imaging time spread as below:
Ha - 300s x 60
Oiii - 300s x 48
Sii - 300s x 48

Total imaging time - 13 hours.
Still needed a bit more Oiii but this will do it for now.

There is so much to image around this region that I might wait for a widefield refractor to do more of it justice, until then I'll dig around a bit more to see what other jewels lie beyond the usual suspects!

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	7726125
PixInsight job	T6L26II5SFL51O9D9DB3PF0Z355D6MJK
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	09h00m57s.77
RA (top/left)	08h57m14s.69
RA (top/right)	08h57m10s.93
RA (bottom/right)	09h04m48s.58
RA (bottom/left)	09h04m37s.56

Dec (center)	-47°59′09″.1
Dec (top/left)	-47°09′23″.4
Dec (top/right)	-48°48′55″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	-48°48′32″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	-47°08′56″.0

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