Where's the Chook?

[strongmanmike]

There are still some who can't make out the running chicken in shots of the Lambda Centauri Nebula region. It is my understanding that the flapping poultry description was coined after its appearence on UK Schmidt plates. It is only noticable at reasonably wide FOV.

Once and for all this is the "Running Chicken" :thumbsup:

** Halpha image by Greg Bradley

[dcalleja]

Definitely a chook. But I can't find this particular outline in StarryNight Pro for some reason.

[DavidU]

I see the chook ! KFC2948 then:lol:

[strongmanmike]

Probably because the Northern Hemisphere writers (I assume) have no idea about our southern folk law :lol:...or the outline just... flew the coupe..? :rolleyes:

[duncan]

Fat Fella aint he. Be Better Roasted, hehehe!
Cheers,
Duncan:lol:

[Bolts_Tweed]

Damn the seventies has a lot toanswer for. I probably would have seen it then - running even - in colour.

Makes my chook the parsons nose

M

[multiweb]

:lol: Too much vino Mike. THIS is the chook. :P

[Bolts_Tweed]

Just checked Robs link to the Steve Crouch's APOD. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080418.html (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080418.html)

Seems NASA doesnt understand either if you check the text (They say the centre of the neb).

After Mr Sidonios education- thx (I even fail Rorshach tests - they all look like murder scenes to me) seems NASA could also be enlightened - but nah keep it here.

M

[Bolts_Tweed]

Just 4 me to confuse matters - r u sure thats not the Pidgeon Marc?:P

M

[Robh]

My interpretation is like Marc's (see post 7).
If you check Martin Pugh's photo here in narrowband the chook is quite obvious.
http://www.mikesalway.com.au/2009/04/16/the-top-10-best-astrophotographers-in-australia

Regards, Rob

[Hagar]

Thanks Mike. I needed that as I could never see a chook before. Now please explain!!!!!! Pauline
Why is it a running chook, it looks more like it's flying but then again one of it's wings looks damaged on the end.

[Craig_L]

Thought this was the chook.:eyepop:

[strongmanmike]

The "running" chicken is deffinitely not on the smaller scale.

Think of what a frantik chicken looks like when it runs - neck forward, winds spread flapping and kind of trotting, it's really quite simple.

Mike

[Hagar]

Be honest you are all just dreamers and had run out of real animals to call it so the next farm animal won.

[TheDecepticon]

I don't subscribe to the chicken theory, sorry. Even when it is drawn in like that, it still doesn't look like a chook.:question:

[RobF]

Hmmm
Looks like so many interpretations, it should be called the "Chicken Coup" nebula....;) :)

[multiweb]

Have another beer... I'm starting to see it.... It looks better by the minute :lol: :P

[Hagar]

A couple of bottles of Red wine and I can now see feathers and a beak.
I do love the egg idea.

[rat156]

Hi Mike,

Yep, I recon you're right, looks like a chook to me.

Now, please do the same thing for the keyhole, I've never been able to see the keyhole in Eta Carina.

Cheers
Stuart

[Jeffkop]

Well I think that there must have been some serious drugs around when these people decided what some of these shapes were ... either that or a lot of the defining edges have disappeared. I reckon you could make any animal the chook. With its head so far away and no really obvious connecting stars or nebula, IF this is the chook it would have been more appropriate to call it the headless chook.

Nice drawing all the same Mike.

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol: you guys crack me up im LMAO reading this thread :rofl:
Nice art work on the chook :lol: the egg theory makes sense :lol:

I think its a KFC chook :P:rofl:

[Tom Davis]

Nice poultry art work. Here's my interpretation from last year (scroll down).

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astroimages-1_00007e.htm

BTW, what is a chook?

Tom

[Bolts_Tweed]

Gday Tom

Its a large Australian bird about 5 feet tall that eats Kangaroos ;) - closely related to the Dropbear.

Nah - its just Aussie slang for what Colonel Sanders made his money from (and I dont mean voluminous backsides).

You can pluck em, fry em, broil em and even search for them in HII regions when there's too much moon in the sky.

Now if I could just see a Centaur shooting an arrow in Sag. instead of a teapot then I would be fullfilled.

Mark

[Inmykombi]

Mistake....see next post.



Geoffro

[Inmykombi]

BTW, what is a chook?

Tom[/QUOTE]


Hi Tom,

I think you have caught the " Dodo " Nebula there, not the Running Chicken.:lol::lol:

Also to let you know....A " chook " is what we Aussies call a Chicken.

Geoffro

[multiweb]

:eyepop: A narrow band chook! Awesome. :thumbsup: That one makes sense too :lol:

[strongmanmike]

Nearly Tom

Just needs to be rotated 90deg :thumbsup:

Really is very obvious to me.....:shrug: you guys are just :screwy: :lol:

Mike :P

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol: he is doing the chicken dance there, not running :rofl::rofl:

[renormalised]

The guys who coined its name were Poms who drank too much Twinings Chamomile Tea and it went to their heads:):P

[DavidU]

What about the Hopping Roo Nebulae?:lol:

[renormalised]

Nah, Dave...that's the Malcolm Fraser Profile Nebula!!!:):P

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol:

[bmitchell82]

this is my rendition of the chook

and mike i see where it is :D just mine is on a slightly smaller scale seems though i don't have a nice wide field :D

[RobF]

Actually, with that snout he looks much more like a cute pink flying pig I think Brendan.....:D

[Robh]

Actually, I can see that!
Maybe it could be sketched out as an Archibald entry for next year.

Regards, Rob

[Jen]

:rofl::rofl:

[Ric]

Great artwork lads, these etchings would not be out of place in the "Grand Masters" tour.

I also can now see the chook, been looking at the wrong way round all these years.

Cheers

[troypiggo]

I feel like a goose - I always thought this was the chook.

(BTW hope Tom doesn't mind me massacring his NB chook, haven't got one of my own)