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Bravo Paul, another off the beaten track image and it is a beauty, congratulations.
My notes on this object in Centaurus are from the ESO book Exploring The Southern Skies noting that a nearby supernova blast may have hit the cloud and formed the tail. It forms the head of a Cometary Globule CG12 and is app 2000 lyrs distant. In the book plate 147 has a pic of this fine object. In Hartungs revised edition it is listed as object 624.
Exploring The Southern Skies it is a remarkable reference that is a few years old now but has many, many Southern objects for todays imager to hunt down. If you can ever get your hands on one treat it like gold!
I am willing to lend it out to long term IIS members wanting some fine, and off the beaten track southern targets to image - just pm me.
Great image Paul.
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