{"id":215077,"date":"2022-01-31T04:14:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T02:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/the-running-chicken-nebula-ic-2944\/"},"modified":"2022-01-31T04:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T02:14:40","slug":"the-running-chicken-nebula-ic-2944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/the-running-chicken-nebula-ic-2944\/","title":{"rendered":"The Running Chicken Nebula (IC 2944)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Running Chicken Nebula (IC 2944)<\/strong>
\n\"Limpopo
\nImage by Martin_Heigan<\/a><\/i>
\nThe Running Chicken Nebula or the Lambda Centauri Nebula (IC 2944), is an open cluster with an associated emission nebula (between 6,000 – 6,500 light-years away) in the constellation Centaurus, close the star Lambda Centauri.<\/p>\n

About Emission nebulae:
\nEmission nebulae are glowing clouds of interstellar gas which have been excited by some nearby energy source, usually a very hot star. The red light seen in this picture is glowing hydrogen captured in the Hydrogen-Alpha (H\u03b1) Infrared wavelength of light at 656nm.<\/p>\n

About this image:
\nPhotographed from the Southern Hemisphere, the "chicken" is upside down, if there is such a thing as the right way up in the Universe… Luckily it still looks like a chicken this way round too.<\/p>\n

2 minute ISO 3200 exposures, imaged in the rural dark skies of the Waterberg, Limpopo Province, South Africa. <\/p>\n

About the Star Colors:
\nYou will notice that star colors differ from red, orange and yellow, to blue. This is an indication of the temperature of the star’s Nuclear Fusion process. This is determined by the size and mass of the star, and the stage of its life cycle. In short, the blue stars are hotter, and the red ones are cooler.<\/p>\n

Gear:
\nGSO 6" f\/4 Imaging Newtonian Reflector Telescope.
\nBaader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector.
\nAstronomik CLS Light Pollution Filter.
\nOrion StarShoot Autoguider.
\nCelestron AVX Mount.
\nQHYCCD PoleMaster.
\nCelestron StarSense.
\nCanon 60Da DSLR. <\/p>\n

Tech:
\nGuiding in Open PHD 2.6.1.
\nImage acquisition in Sequence Generator Pro.
\nLights\/Subs: 15 x 120 sec. ISO 3200 CFA FIT Files.
\nCalibration Frames:
\n30 x Bias
\n30 x Darks
\nPre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
\nand finished in Photoshop.<\/p>\n

Astrometry Info:
\nnova.astrometry.net\/user_images\/1160326#annotated<\/a>
\nRA, Dec center: (174.387810483, -63.4866603694) degrees
\nOrientation: 1.1213611811 deg E of N
\nPixel scale: 6.21617787776 arcsec\/pixel <\/p>\n

Martin
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