The Running Chicken Feet - RCW 61

The planetary nebula RCW61 forms the feet of the Running Chicken nebula complex (IC 2944, IC 2948) in Centaurus.

 

RCW61 is ionised by three O9 giant stars: HD 100099 (O9 III), CD -62 535 (O9 II) and HD 100444 (O9 II), as well as three B-class stars.

 

RA: 11h 29m 33.65s

DEC: -63° 48' 31.5"

Location: Centaurus

 

Acquisition May 2020

Total acquisition time of 18 hours.

 

Technical Details

Data acquisition: Martin PUGH

Processing: Nicolas ROLLAND

Location: El Sauce Observatory, Rio Hurtado, Chile

R 8 x 1200 sec

G 8 x 1200 sec

B 8 x 1200 sec

Ha 23 x 1800 sec

OIII 20 x 1800 sec

Optics: Planewave 17“ CDK @ F6.8

Mount: Paramount ME

CCD: SBIG STXL-11002 (AOX)

Pre Processing: CCDstack & Pixinsight

Post Processing: Photoshop CC

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