Running Chicken wider field mosaic.

[Nikolas]

IC 2944 aka The running Chicken Nebula

Below that is the SNR G296.1-00.5 to the right inside the circular ring of nebulosity is IC 2966

This is 4 panels of images each 3 hours long so about 12 hours of HOO and 12 hours of SO using the Optolong L-Ultimate and the Askar D2 SO filter so a total of 24 hours

Acquired over many nights using the Juwei 17 Harmonic mount

ZWO Asiair Pro for planning and acquisition

ZWO ASI 2944mc Pro camera

Stacked and joined together in AstropixelProcessor
Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop.

[strongmanmike]

Cool field, that filamentary shell G296.2-2.8 doesn't get much attention at all, so nice work Nik, its shown up nicely :thumbsup:

Mike

[Startrek]

Nik,
Great capture and beautifully processed
That faint circular ring makes the image
Well done !!

Martin

[Nikolas]

Cheers Mike I am surprised it doesn't appear more often, it is quite difficult when the chicken blows everything out.



cheers Martin I only discovered it recently and attempted to image it. hopefully I will add even more data it is very faint!

[gregbradley]

A terrific image Nik.

Greg.

[Nikolas]

Thanks Greg


I have updated my original image and posted it on Astrobin (https://www.astrobin.com/xffgpo/C/)

[Ryderscope]

Great composition Nik brining in a wonderful array of different objects :thumbsup:

[Nikolas]

Thanks you, I didn't even know about these until I searched around after seeing just one image with these objects. There is only so many times we can photograph the Chicken so looking around it reveals some interesting objects.