CG4 God's Hand PCG 21338

[CoolhandJo]

Incredibly faint but very exotic! Located in the southern Puppis constellation, this cometary globule is more shaped like a cosmic monster about to devour the galaxy PCG 21338, and reminds me of a Dune Sand Worm! This is 18.5 hours with 15 min sub frames used. Processed in Pixinsight and taken with ASI 533 MC PRO with ASKAR V @600mm F7.5. Needs about another 100 hours of data lol (thanks Nick A for his original post!)

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[Nikolas]

This defintely needs 100 hours for sure, a long term project considering our crappy skies

Nice work mate

[kosborn]

Nicely done! It's a target I've wanted to capture for a long time, but never quite got there. Looking at my hard disk, it seems I have 30 luminance images from last year and nothing more. Maybe next year...

[CoolhandJo]

Thanks Nik. Ill leave it till next season :)



Thanks! Considering that i used 15min subs with 80mm aperture - the frames looked like a faint smudge LOL. Needed 18 hours + with my OSC to get even this!

[Dave882]

Nice job mate. I think you’ve done exceptionally well for such a faint target. 100hrs ay…wow that’s gunna Be some undertaking!

[CoolhandJo]

Thanks Dave. Maybe I'll upgrade to 200mm aperture and get a mono instead of slogging it out on 100hts! :lol:

[Ryderscope]

CG4 is a fascinating and engaging object Paul and presents well :thumbsup:

[CoolhandJo]

Thanks . The space worm blows my.mind tbh.