Under the feet of the chicken

[marco]

Hi all, under the feet of the running chicken I found a very elusive object I would like to post here. It is an extremely faint supernova remnant discovered around 10 years ago during the UK HII survey at Siding Spring. To be precise, it *should be* a supernova remnant since an official explanation of the object nature is still missing :question:. To be able to show something I had to push the Ha exposure as long as possible, this time collecting almost 20 hours of light through this filter alone. Despite that these faint filaments are barely visible over an area of about a square degree :sadeyes:

The link:
http://www.glitteringlights.com/Images/deepsky/13667287_7Mtr58#!i=1751991100&k=mgpckHL&lb=1&s=X3 (http://www.glitteringlights.com/Images/deepsky/13667287_7Mtr58#%21i=1751991100&k=mgpckHL&lb=1&s=X3)

This is not what one would call his best image, never the less it was fun try to go there where no amateur has gone before :anaut::rofl::rofl:
Many thanks to Sakib Rasool (http://www.starsurfin.com/) for having suggested be this extremely challenging object :thumbsup:

Other details available on the picture :)

Clear Skies
Marco

[prokyon]

Wow Marco, that is great! Never seen before.

[strongmanmike]

Many people get sick of the Eta Carinas and M42's of the sky and like to see out of the way more obscure objects...well, I don't think you can much more out of the way and obscure than this :thumbsup:

Great job Marco

Mike

[atalas]

Very nice work Marco.

[dvj]

Hi Marco,

Great Image. I'am also down in Coona remotely working on simular objects but in deep HA with the FSQ and Proline 16803. I'm thinking on a short survey of these filamentary shells.

[Paul Haese]

Nice Marco, very faint object and certainly one I have never seen before.

[Ross G]

An amazing capture Marco.

I was in Coona on the weekend. The sky was very good.

Ross.

[marco]

Thanks Ross, missing Coona actually, everytime I check out the weather on our allsky cam I wish to be there :(



Thanks Paul



That is interesting! I was not aware of many facilities providing telescope hosting down there.. it seems our local "family" is expanding :D



Thanks Louie!



Thanks Mike, in effect perhaps even too much out the bitten path, need to borrow your scope when trying these gostly objects ;)



Thanks Prokyon!

Clear skies
Marco

[multiweb]

Very cool shot. Not familiar with the object as well. :thumbsup: