12.5″ f/9 Quasar Ritchey Chretien, SBIG STL11000, Losmandy Titan
Frames: Ha: 80×600″, Lum: 43×600″, OIII: 73×600″, RGB: 99×600″, Exposure: 49h 10′
Image acquisition by: Insight Observatory (Franck Jobard at Deep Sky Chile).
Image processing: Ruben Barbosa
This new image shows the Running Chicken Nebula, a cloud of gas and newborn stars that lies around 6500 light-years away from us in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). Officially called IC 2944, or the Lambda Centauri Nebula, its strange nickname comes from the bird-like shape of its brightest region. The star Lambda Centauri itself lies just outside the field of view.