What am I?

[Emuhead (Andrew)]

This is a crop from a target I'm working on.. how well do you know your blue blobs? So, what's the target?

Seriously though.. does anyone know it's name?

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Isnt that the tiny Planetary nebula near the running chicken?

[Emuhead (Andrew)]

Nailed it!

Hunting to find out what it's called to check out a high resolution image of it.

[PaulSthcoast (Paul)]

Hi Andrew.

Official names are :

Hen 2-72, PLN 294-0.1, ESO 129-29

Reported by Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit in 1953.

The Astronomical Catalogue Designations
place Ha omitting stars and planetary nebula
under the HEN catalogue.

And now we know why it's called
The Running Chicken.

Paul.

[pkinchington (Peter (Kanga))]

Originally Posted by PaulSthcoast

Hi Andrew.

Official names are :

Hen 2-72, PLN 294-0.1, ESO 129-29

Reported by Dorrit Hoffleit in 1953.

The Astronomical Catalogue Designations
place Ha omitting stars and planetary nebula
under the HEN catalogue.

And now we know why it's called
The Running Chicken.

Paul.

Hi Paul,
It is great to know the designation of this blue blob. I always thought that these objects were aberrations ( I am an astronomy novice!).
Cheers Kanga

[Emuhead (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by PaulSthcoast

Hi Andrew.

Official names are :

Hen 2-72, PLN 294-0.1, ESO 129-29

Reported by Dorrit Hoffleit in 1953.

The Astronomical Catalogue Designations
place Ha omitting stars and planetary nebula
under the HEN catalogue.

And now we know why it's called
The Running Chicken.

Paul.

That's really interesting regarding the Hen catalogue.

Google & Astrobin search return almost no images.. hmm. Possible photo op for guys with long focal length scopes.

Thanks for clarifying.