CED110/CED111 - The Chamaeleon Molecular Cloud (John Dziuba)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Chamaeleon (Cha) · Contains: Chamaleon · HD100483 · HD100531 · HD100868 · HD101022 · HD101251 · HD92665 · HD92762 · HD93165 · HD93237 · HD93326 · HD93580 · HD93601 · HD94025 · HD94146 · HD94231 · HD94414 · HD94454 · HD94717 · HD94964 · HD95208 · HD95326 · HD95883 · HD95974 · HD96092 · HD96451 · HD96494 · HD96675 · HD97048 · HD97049 · And 19 more.

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CED110/CED111 - The Chamaeleon Molecular Cloud

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CED110/CED111 - The Chamaeleon Molecular Cloud

Located very close to the celestial south pole, the Chamaeleon molecular cloud is a beautiful region that has a lot going on. It is one of the closest star forming areas in the Milky Way.

Near the center of the image are the two most obvious features, they are the two reflection nebulae Cederblad 110 (right center) and Cederblad 111 (left center).

Nestled in between them are two Herbig-Haro objects HH49 and HH50. They appear as small red blips of nebulosity. These are formed by strong jets that are being ejected from newly formed stars. The jets excite the surrounding matter and that causes the red light emission.

Also visible is "V" shaped Chamaeleon Infrared Nebula. This is also caused by a young but cooler star that is emitting jets that are carving a luminous path through the molecular cloud.

In the upper right portion of the molecular cloud, you can find the blue reflection nebula IC2631. And finally close to IC2631 and on the edge of the cloud is the barred spiral galaxy NGC3620 which does your head in when you consider that is lies over 58 million light years away. The molecular cloud itself is only 500 light years away! There truly is no visual sense of depth or distance when looking at astrological images.

I will be publishing a close up image of CED110 and 111 in the coming weeks that was shot with my RiDK400 at the same time that this data was collected.

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RA (center)	11h05m27s.30
RA (top/left)	11h43m20s.44
RA (top/right)	11h26m46s.86
RA (bottom/right)	10h39m00s.32
RA (bottom/left)	10h33m41s.85

Dec (center)	-77°21′31″.6
Dec (top/left)	-79°33′17″.2
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Dec (bottom/right)	-74°56′00″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	-79°48′00″.1

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