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Redish Coalsack Loop was visible faintly on this frame, taken without dual narrow band filter.
Here is a frame of the same area taken with dual narrow band filter. Coalsack Loop is visible clearly:
www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/53740199778
Equipment: Sigma 105mmF1.4 DG HSM Art, IDAS Clear Filter, and EOS R-SP4II, modified by Seo San on ZWO AM5 Equatorial Mount, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding
Exposure: 13 times x 600 seconds, 4 x 240 sec, and 4 x 60 seconds at ISO 1,600 and f/3.2
site: 2,430m above sea level at lat. 24 38 55 South and long. 70 16 52 West near Cerro Armazones Chile
SQML was 21.41 at the night. Ambient temperature was around 6 degrees Celsius or 43 degrees Fahrenheit.
The deep south Milky Way from Alpha and Beta Centauri (at left) to the False Cross in Vela and Carina (at right). At centre is the Carina Nebula and the Southern Cross, Crux, with the dark Coal Sack. Omega Centauri is the bright “star” at upper left. The large naked eye star cluster at lower right below the False Cross is NGC 2516.
This is a stack of 5 x 4 minute exposures at f/2.8 with the 35mm Canon L-series lens and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1000, with an additional similar exposure layered in taken through the Kenko Softon A filter to provide the star glows. Tracked on the iOptron Sky Tracker. Taken from the Warrumbungles Motel grounds at the 2016 Oz Sky Star Party, April 5.
This frame was taken with dual narrow band filter, IDAS NB12, but the most importance is not with those hydrogen-alpha emissions.
There exist many striae of dark or hydrogen-alpha clouds flowing in the same oblique direction, from east northeast to west southwest or vice versa against the galactic plane. Who know the reason or mechanism of the large structure. North is up, and east is to the left.
Equipment: Sigma 35mmF1.4 DG HSM Art, IDAS NB12 Dual Narrow Band Filter, and EOS R6-SP5, modified by Seo San on ZWO AM5 Equatorial Mount, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding
Exposure: 16 times x 60 seconds, 16 x 240 sec, and 19 times x 900 - 1,800 seconds at ISO 6,400 and f/3.2
Total exposure time was 10 hours. Data were acquired during four consecutive nights. I tried imaging through five consecutive nights, but the data acquired at first night were discarded due to rotation of ball mount a bit after the night. The frames were different in direction from others gathered at the other four nights. The rotation made it difficult for me to register them together.
The rotation was recorded in the frame containing bright meteor: www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/53748460722
site: 2,430m above sea level at lat. 24 38 55 South and long. 70 16 52 West near Cerro Armazones Chile
SQML was 21.55 at the night. Ambient temperature was around 6 degrees Celsius or 43 degrees Fahrenheit.
ic 2944 running chicken nebula
Telescòpio: celestron 130 slt(130mm/f5) modificado
Montagem: celestron slt altazimutal computadorizada
Câmera: Canon sl1 modificada com filtro astrodon ad40 clear
Baader MkIII coma corretor
Filtro astronomik cls ccd eos clip
Deep sky stacker: calibração e integração dos frames
Processamento: photoshop cs2, astronomy tools
Exposição total: uma hora e dez minutos
24/04/2015
serra negra são paulo
Do you feel lost looking at this Picture of the Week? Exploring the gas cloud known as IC2948 means finding your way across countless nascent stars born in this enormous stellar nursery. And yet, this is just a snippet of a much larger object: the Running Chicken Nebula. This nebula spans an area on the night sky close to 25 full moons, and yet, the area you see here is not even a third of a full moon. Obtaining such a detailed snippet of the nebula was possible thanks to a 1.5-billion-pixel image taken by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted and operated by ESO.
Located in the constellation of the Centaur (Centaurus), the Running Chicken Nebula is a labyrinth of gas, dust and young stars whose highly intense radiation erodes away the surrounding material. The gas cloud IC2948 is the brightest region of the nebula. Here, we find creeping dark clouds, shaped like open hands about to grab their surrounding blooming stars.
First discovered more than a century ago, this gas cloud is helping us understand how stars form and behave during their infancy. To spot IC2948 within the much larger Running Chicken Nebula, locate the chicken’s rear end (or its head, as some people claim). In your search, you may come across other areas like the stunning GUM 41 nebula.
Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team. Acknowledgement: CASU
20 MAY 2018, Coonabarabran, Australia..
Nikon D810A, Nikon 200mm f/2 @f/4.Takahashi EM-11,
Total Integration : 108min
Nikon D7100
Focal Length: 17mm
Optimize Image: Vivid
Color Mode: aRGB
Long Exposure NR: Off
High ISO NR: On (Low)
2015/01/21 01:06:19.2
Exposure Mode: Manual
White Balance: Auto
Tone Comp.: Normal
NEF (14-bit)
Metering Mode: Multi-Pattern
AF Mode: Manual
15 sec - F/2.8
Flash Sync Mode: Not Attached
Saturation: Normal
Exposure Comp.: -1.7 EV
Sharpening: Normal
Lens: 17-35mm F/2.8D Nikkor
Sensitivity: ISO 3200
Image Comment: © Gerard Prins (+56) 22758 7209
Nikon D7100
Focal Length: 12mm
Optimize Image: Custom
Color Mode: Mode III (aRGB)
Long Exposure NR: Off
High ISO NR: On (Low)
2015/01/21 23:31:02.9
Exposure Mode: Manual
White Balance: Auto
RAW (14-bit)
Metering Mode: Multi-Pattern
AF Mode: Manual
Latitude: S 33°37.01'(33°37'0.5")
30 sec - F/4
Flash Sync Mode: Not Attached
Longitude: W 69°58.16'(69°58'9.8")
Azimuth: 195º (SSW)
Exposure Comp.: 0 EV
Sharpening: Normal
Altitude: 2697.00 m
Lens: 12-24mm F/4G Tokina
Sensitivity: ISO 6400
Image Comment: (c) Gerard Prins (+56) 22758 7209
The Running Chicken Nebula (also known as the Lambda Centaurus Nebula) is visible to observers in the Southern Hemisphere. Its common name is derived from its imaginative appearance of a chicken running head-on towards the viewer with its wings uplifted and it neck protruding vertically upwards. The nebula is 6,500 light years from Earth and 60 light years in diameter. It occupies the same amount of space in the night sky as the full Moon. The bright hot blue star in the upper right of the image is Lambda Centauri located in the constellation Centaurus.
IC 2948 is a giant cloud of ionized Hydrogen and interstellar dust. The nebula is a giant stellar nursery in which new stars are forming. The hot blue giant stars are very massive when compared to our Sun and are generating large amounts of ultra-violet radiation. In addition to the ultra-violet radiation, the stars emit strong stellar winds composed of atomic particles that blast pocket of gas surrounding these stars and form clusters of stars within the nebula. Careful examination of the nebula reveals small black patches that are known as Thackeray’s Globules which are named after the British astronomer A. D. Thackeray who first observed them in 1950.
Thackeray’s Globules are stellar cocoons in which new stars are forming. The cocoons shield the stellar embryos forming in the globules from the destructive radiation and stellar winds from the hot blue giants surrounding the globules. The globules are eventually eroded from the intense bombardment of the external radiation and stellar winds from their outside as well a from the newly born stars on the inside. The globules will disappear over time leaving the newly formed stars visible like the rest of the already formed stars in the nebula. Newly formed stars have already been observed in the Thackeray’ Globules in the Running Chicken Nebula using infrared observation techniques.
The image data was obtained in 2019 using iTelescope’s T68 robotic astrograph located at the Bathurst Observatory in New South Wales Australia. T68 is remotely controlled by authorized iTelescope users over the Internet. T68 is a Celestron RASA 11” diameter astrograph operating at a photographic speed of f/2.2 with a ZWO ASCI 1600MC CMOS color camera attached to it. Sixty-two 45-second exposures were taken to make the final image shown above. The dedicated astronomical processing software Astro Pixel Processor (APP) was used to combine the 62-exposures into a single image. I controlled T68 from my home in the suburbs of Washington, DC. The 62-exposures were downloaded from the iTelescope server over the Internet to my home PC where they were processed with APP.
FS-60CB+C0.72X+SkyWatcher Star Adventurer, Canon EOS Rebel XTi monomod (KDX2mono) Baader Ha @ ISO2000, ss180x68, dark x20, flat x20, flat-dark x20, bias x20, 2016/3/1 4:07-4:52, 2016/3/4 22:54 - 2016/3/5 5:15
Celestron C14 Hyperstar, Canon 450/XSi Baader, BackyardEOS.
60x30 seconds @ ISO 400, 30 darks, 100 bias, no flats, no guiding.
Processed with PixInsight.
14 MAY 2018, Coonabarabran, Australia.
Nikon D5500, Sigma 85mm f/1.4 Art @f/3.2.
Takahashi EM-11
Total Integration : 136min
The Lambda Centauri complex, also known as the Running Chicken Nebula IC 2948 (at left) and above it the Pearl Cluster (NGC 3766). Just right of centre is the open cluster IC 2714 ad below it the small barely resolve cluster Mel 105. To the upper right is the nebula complex NGC 3576/81. This is a rich area of sky to explore with binoculars or a low-power telescope with exccellent contrasts between rich starfields and dark nebulas.
This is a stack of 4 x 10 minute exposures at f/4.3 with the Borg 77mm astrograph (330mm focal length) and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 800. Taken from Coonabarabran, Australia, March 2014.
Canon EOS Kiss DX mod with EF200mm F2.8L II USM + Astronomik CLS + EOS Low-pass filter -1 @ ISO3200 F6.3 ss120x15, ss250x1, long-Exp NR ON, 400plus, flat x20, bias x20 アパートの窓から
Out of this world public domain images from NASA. All original images and many more can be found from the NASA Image Library
Higher resolutions with no attribution required can be downloaded: www.rawpixel.com/board/418580/nasa
FS-60CB+C0.72X+SkyWatcher Star Adventurer, Canon EOS Rebel XTi monomod (KDX2mono) Baader Ha @ ISO2000, ss180x160, dark x20, flat x20, flat-dark x20, bias x20, 2016/3/1 4:07-5:16, 2016/3/4 22:26 - 2016/3/5 5:15, 2016/3/7 20:45 - 2016/3/8 5:16
IRIS Drizzle 2x2, RawTherapee
Same as before, but with some tweaking : stars reduction, better color, less contrast.
Celestron C14 Hyperstar, Canon 450/XSi Baader, BackyardEOS.
60x30 seconds @ ISO 400, 30 darks, 100 bias, no flats, no guiding.
Processed with PixInsight.
Nikon D7100
Focal Length: 12mm
Six-image stack
Optimize Image: Normal
Color Mode: aRGB
Long Exposure NR: Off
High ISO NR: Off
2016/03/13 04:43:57.9
Exposure Mode: Manual
White Balance: Direct sunlight
Lossless compressed RAW (14-bit)
Metering Mode: Multi-Pattern
AF Mode: Manual
10 sec - F/4
Flash Sync Mode: Not Attached
Exposure Comp.: 0 EV
Lens: 12-24mm F/4G Tokina
Sensitivity: ISO 1600
Image Comment: © Gerard Prins (+56) 22758 7209
The Running Chicken Nebula comprises several clouds, all of which we can see in this vast image from the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO’s Paranal site. This 1.5-billion pixel image spans an area in the sky of about 25 full Moons. The clouds shown in wispy pink plumes are full of gas and dust, illuminated by the young and hot stars within them.
Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team. Acknowledgement: CASU
15 Jul 2018
Rho Ophiuchi
Last night in the desert
It was also the France World Cup champion night
Canon 760D+Samyang Premium 85mm
Total 150mins exposure
Taken from my suburban Sydney backyard on 12/04/2010
Modified Canon EOS 400D, Orion ED80 (FL600mm)at prime focus. IDAS LPS filter
EQ5 mount autoguided by WO refractor;Philips SPC900nc & PhD
ISO800 4 X 5mins plus 3 X4 mins subs stacked in DeepSkyStacker with darks. Lightly cropped.The bright star is Lambda Centauri.
"Binning" is a technique in which a group of pixels will be combined to form one "super pixel".
In the case of the binning 2x2, a group of 4 pixels will form 1 (super) pixel and the resolution will be halved but the signal-to-noise ratio is increased.
Only testing other process.
There is color variation because intense light pollution.
* Camera Fuji X-E1
* Lens Canon FD 55mm f/1.2 S.S.C.
* Tripod Weifeng WT-3750
* 101 x 6.5 seconds
* f/2.8
* ISO 6400
* Deep Sky Stacker
* Adobe Lightroom Mobile
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"Binning" é uma técnica na qual um grupo de pixels será combinado para formar um "super pixel".
No caso do binning 2x2, um grupo de 4 pixels formará 1 (super) pixel e a resolução será dividida ao meio mas a relação sinal-ruído é aumentada.
Apenas testando outro processo.
Há variação de cor devido à intensa poluição luminosa.
* Câmera Fuji X-E1
* Lente Canon FD 55mm f / 1.2 S.S.C.
* Tripé Weifeng WT-3750
* 101 x 6,5 segundos
* f/2.8
* ISO 6400
* Deep Sky Stacker
* Adobe Lightroom Mobile
Equipment: Kowa Prominar 500mm F5.6L+Mount adapter TX07T f=350mm F4, EOS 6D SEO-SP4 (UIBAR), Vixen AP with autoguiding by PHD2
Exposure: 210sec x7 composite at ISO3200
Taken on Apr 02, 2019
IC 2944, also known as the Running Chicken Nebula, the Lambda Centauri Nebula or the λ Centauri Nebula, is an open cluster with an associated emission nebula found in the constellation Centaurus, near the star λ Centauri. It features Bok globules, which are frequently a site of active star formation. However, no evidence for star formation has been found in any of the globules in IC 2944. Other designations for IC 2944 include RCW 62, G40 and G42.
Telescopio: SkyWatcher Explorer 150/750 - Montura: EQ6R Pro - Camara: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro - Filtros: HA y OIII Optolong - Rueda Porta Filtros: QHY - Corrector de Coma: SKYWATCHER - Enfocador: ZWO EAF -
EQUIPO GUIA: Telescopio StarGuider 60/240 (F4) - Camara QHI5LII Color.
SoftWare: SharCap - N.I.N.A. - PHD2 - PixingSight - Photoshop.
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IC 2944 is an emission nebula about 6,000 light years away, commonly called the Running Chicken Nebula, a rather creative name (I still don't understand how one can see a figure of a chicken in it...). It is also famous because it is very rich in Bok globules, small clouds of gas and dust so dense that they block out visible light. The image was taken in narrow band, i.e. with filters that select the emissions of the main elements that constitute the nebula, in this case sulphur, hydrogen and oxygen, and putting together data from 2 telescopes placed about 8000 km apart in Chile and Namibia for a total of almost 7 h of exposure!
Technical data. System 1 (Chile): Takahashi Epsilon 180 mm (500 mm focal length) with ZWO ASI 2600 MM. 10x300s SII (5 nm), 32x120s Ha (5 nm), 10x300s OIII (5 nm).
System 2 (Namibia): Takahashi FSQ 106ED (530 mm focal length) with Moravian C3-61000. 17x300s SII (8 nm), 17x300s Ha (7 nm), 17x300s OIII (8.5 nm)
Canon EOS Rebel T3 Baadar BCF mod with EF200mm F2.8L II USM + Astronomik CLS + EOS Kiss DX Low-pass filter -1 @ ISO2500 F4.0 ss79x26 dark x10, flat x10, dark flat x10, bias x20 ポラリエ アパートにて 2015/5/19 0:43 - 1:33
Crap weather again so more data from one of Telescope LIves remote scopes in Chili, IC2944 The Running Chicken Nebula in SHO my take on the Hubble planet, This is another Nebula not visible to me from the UK not sure where the name came from as I'm struggling to make out a running chicken haha.
Nebulosa da galinha correndo (IC2944) nebulosa rica em h-alpha. Chamada assim pois, de lado, parece uma galinha correndo. Essa foi minha segunda captura deste objeto, tendo sido a primeira feita com o telescópio de 1000mm de distância focal. Foto feita em bortle 8 com filtro L-Enhance.
Running Chicken Nebula (IC2944) A h-alpha nebula. Called like that because, sideway, looks like a chicken running. This was my second capture of this object. The first one was with a 1000mm focal distance telescope. Picture taken in a borle 8 site with L-Enhance filter.
Camera Zwo Asi 294mc Pro, gain 125 at -10°C, William Optics zs sd (66/388mm) with 0.8 focal redicer (leading to f4.9 and 310mm focal lenght). Guiding with Asiair and ASI290mc in an adapted finderscope 50mm, Eq5 Sky-watcher mount and AstroEq tracking mod. 25 Ligth Frames of 180s and 27 of 300s, 83 darks and 50 bias. 3 hour and 30 minutes total exposure. Processing on Pixinsight. Bortle 8. Used Optolong L-Enhance filter.
#astrophotography #astrofotografia #astromomia #astronomy #telescopio #telescope #williamoptics #zs66 #zs66sd #Eq5 #asi294mcpro #AstroEq #IC2944 #RunningChickenNebula #RunningChicken #Bortle8 #bortle8sky #Nebula #DeepSkyStacker #deepsky #pixinsight #asi290mc #ZwoAsi #zwoasi290mc #asiair #guiding #optolong #optolonglenhance
Edited European Southern Observatory image of the nebula IC2948 (also known as the "Running Chicken Nebula"). Color/processing variant.
Original caption: Do you feel lost looking at this Picture of the Week? Exploring the gas cloud known as IC2948 means finding your way across countless nascent stars born in this enormous stellar nursery. And yet, this is just a snippet of a much larger object: the Running Chicken Nebula. This nebula spans an area on the night sky close to 25 full moons, and yet, the area you see here is not even a third of a full moon. Obtaining such a detailed snippet of the nebula was possible thanks to a 1.5-billion-pixel image taken by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted and operated by ESO. Located in the constellation of the Centaur (Centaurus), the Running Chicken Nebula is a labyrinth of gas, dust and young stars whose highly intense radiation erodes away the surrounding material. The gas cloud IC2948 is the brightest region of the nebula. Here, we find creeping dark clouds, shaped like open hands about to grab their surrounding blooming stars. First discovered more than a century ago, this gas cloud is helping us understand how stars form and behave during their infancy. To spot IC2948 within the much larger Running Chicken Nebula, locate the chicken’s rear end (or its head, as some people claim). In your search, you may come across other areas like the stunning GUM 41 nebula.
Edited European Southern Observatory image of the nebula IC2948 (also known as the "Running Chicken Nebula").
Original caption: Do you feel lost looking at this Picture of the Week? Exploring the gas cloud known as IC2948 means finding your way across countless nascent stars born in this enormous stellar nursery. And yet, this is just a snippet of a much larger object: the Running Chicken Nebula. This nebula spans an area on the night sky close to 25 full moons, and yet, the area you see here is not even a third of a full moon. Obtaining such a detailed snippet of the nebula was possible thanks to a 1.5-billion-pixel image taken by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted and operated by ESO. Located in the constellation of the Centaur (Centaurus), the Running Chicken Nebula is a labyrinth of gas, dust and young stars whose highly intense radiation erodes away the surrounding material. The gas cloud IC2948 is the brightest region of the nebula. Here, we find creeping dark clouds, shaped like open hands about to grab their surrounding blooming stars. First discovered more than a century ago, this gas cloud is helping us understand how stars form and behave during their infancy. To spot IC2948 within the much larger Running Chicken Nebula, locate the chicken’s rear end (or its head, as some people claim). In your search, you may come across other areas like the stunning GUM 41 nebula.
Nebulosa da galinha correndo (IC2944) nebulosa rica em h-alpha. Chamada assim pois, de lado, parece uma galinha correndo. Essa foi minha segunda captura deste objeto, tendo sido a primeira feita com o telescópio de 1000mm de distância focal. Foto feita em bortle 8 com filtro L-Enhance. Essa é minha primeira foto starless!
Running Chicken Nebula (IC2944) A h-alpha nebula. Called like that because, sideway, looks like a chicken running. This was my second capture of this object. The first one was with a 1000mm focal distance telescope. Picture taken in a borle 8 site with L-Enhance filter. This is my first starless image!
Camera Zwo Asi 294mc Pro, gain 125 at -10°C, William Optics zs sd (66/388mm) with 0.8 focal redicer (leading to f4.9 and 310mm focal lenght). Guiding with Asiair and ASI290mc in an adapted finderscope 50mm, Eq5 Sky-watcher mount and AstroEq tracking mod. 25 Ligth Frames of 180s and 27 of 300s, 83 darks and 50 bias. 3 hour and 30 minutes total exposure. Processing on Pixinsight. Bortle 8. Used Optolong L-Enhance filter.
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É muito interessante quando tiramos uma foto de uma porção maior do céu (menor distância focal). Muitos objetos tendem a aparecer. Nesta captura da Nebulosa da Galinha Correndo (IC2714), também é possível ver a NGC3579 e outros objetos mais, dentre outras nebulosas e grupamentos estelares. Infelizmente, devido a um erro de configuração que só vi depois, as capturas foram feitas com gain 0, o que reduziu muito o brilho e aumentou o ruído e acabei tendo que fazer um corte grande nas laterais. Mas ainda assim, gostei bastante do resultado! Segunda imagem mostra os objetos com anotação.
It's always fascinating when we photograph a wider portion of the sky (using a shorter focal length). Many deep-sky objects tend to reveal themselves. In this capture of the Running Chicken Nebula (IC 2714), you can also spot NGC 3579 and several other objects, including additional nebulas and stellar clusters. Unfortunately, due to a configuration error I only noticed afterward, the images were taken with gain set to 0 — which significantly reduced brightness and increased noise, so I ended up cropping a large portion of the edges. Still, I'm quite happy with the final result! The second image includes annotations highlighting the objects in the field.
- Exposures: 24 Ligth Frames of 300s, 3 darks and 25 flats, Optolong L-Ultimate filter. 2 hours total exposure. Processing on Pixinsight. Bortle 8
- Camera: Zwo Asi 294mc Pro, gain 125 at 0°C
- Scope: Samyang 135mm at f3.2
- Mount: Sky-watcher AZ-GTi mount
- Guiding specs: Asiair and ASI120mm in a zwo 30mm f4 miniguider
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