Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  IC 2872  ·  IC 2944  ·  IC 2948  ·  The star λCen  ·  lam Cen Nebula
Running Chicken IC2948 (another composition), John Bradshaw
Running Chicken IC2948 (another composition)
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Running Chicken IC2948 (another composition)

Running Chicken IC2948 (another composition), John Bradshaw
Running Chicken IC2948 (another composition)
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Running Chicken IC2948 (another composition)

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This is another composition of the same data of IC2984 as elsewhere on my page, this time with attenuated stars . The striking thing to me with this composition is the open cluster of blue stars towards the top blasting out a cavity that shows up as edge-on red structures mostly running left-right at top middle and lower sections. (I presume lamda Centauri is a foreground star). I have seen magnificent astrophotographs of this sort of situation that look so strikingly 3-dimensional (often of the orion nebula) and would love to emulate that one day. I gave the red edges a bit of excess saturation to try and bring this out but ended up choosing a less emphatic picture to upload.

(At least I can see the chicken with its crop in this one -- this nebula always looks like a big codfish to me.)

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Running Chicken IC2948 (another composition), John Bradshaw