Had three good nights last month where the planets of life aligned and allowed me excursion out to Wallaroo to... drink beer
, sing
and image under great sky conditions
IC 2872 is the patch of nebulosity that forms the head of the famous Running Chicken Nebula (IC 2944) in Centaurus...that everyone knows so well.
This is an SII Ha OIII palette, that clearly shows the distribution of the three different emission lines throughout the field. (more details can be found under the image at the link below)
IC 2872 The Running Chicken's Head
EDIT: Processed as
an HaRGB composite using all data sets
So..?..
Where is this nebula? anyway....?
(BTW note the size of the field provided by the big 16803 chip in the full chicken shot - same scope
)
Mike