Redo of my data of the "running chicken nebula", which I think is improved with greater color saturation and brightness. If you are wondering, various explanations and schematics are given for the nebula name, but is seems no two of them are the same. 45 minutes of imaging time with Ha, OIII, SII filters on a Takahashi FSQ ED with SBIG STL-11000M camera from Australia.

The dark blobs in the central aspect of the image are Thackeray's globules (Bok globules). These are opaque clouds of interstellar dust and gas thought to be involved in star formation. Astronomer A.D. Thackeray first spied the globules in IC 2944 in 1950. Globules have been known since Dutch-American astronomer Bart Bok first drew attention to them in 1947.

Note also the little green blob at the top right of the image, which is a planetary nebula (expanding glowing shell of ionized gas ejected from a red giant star late in their lives). Best as I can figure out that thing is called either He2-72, or PK294-00 1.

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