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Old 29-03-2009, 03:21 PM
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Originally Posted by dcalleja View Post
Steve
I was very interested to see IC2948. Never seen this one imaged before. Great to see some different objects. Excellent colour processing too
Another common name for this object is The Running Chicken Nebula or The Bat Nebula. I imaged it mainly to capture Thackery's Globules ... the dark matter visible at the centre of the image within the cluster. The entire nebula is too big to fit in the fov of my setup. Others have posted wider field views of the Running Chicken fairly recently.

Glad you like the image ... thanks Dan.

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