IC 2944, aka the Running Chicken Nebula, is an emission nebula associated with an open star cluster in the constellation Centaurus. Near the centre are Thackeray's Globules - a group of Bok Globules comprised of dense cosmic dust and gas. Bok Globules are often a site of star formation but not in this case.
Captured at Yass, Australia 5-24 April, 2018.
Scope: Planewave CDK17 @ f/6.8 = 2939mm FL
Mount: Paramount ME
Camera: SBIG STXL-11002/AOX
Filters: Astrodon LRGB gen II, 3nm NB
Image scale: 0.63 arcsec/pixel
Exposures: 14x1800s Ha, 14x1800s Oiii, 14x1800s Sii (21 hours)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8.5
Acquisition: Martin Pugh
Processing: Rick Stevenson
