IC2944 Running Chicken now APOD

[iceman (Mike)]

That's quite amazing, Fred. Love it.

It's now IOTW.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Well done Fred. Another one for the cool wall.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

stunning image - excellent in every aspect

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Thanks Mike im chuffed !!!.

Dunno about gold standard hehe, specially with stars !.

Cool wall oil painting, love it, all I need now is a pool room ;-)

[DrWho]

Amazing image Fred

[Barrykgerdes]

Hi Fred

That is a fine bit of photography. However being mainly Ha I cannot identify any part of it with my RGB images of ic2944 (running Chicken). ic2944 I believe is approximately 1.9 degrees square roughly centered on Lambda Centauri. The much smaller chicken body is ic2948 with Lambda Centauri in the top (north) Right corner.

Barry

[atalas]

Well deserved Fred...congrats.

[Barrykgerdes]

Hi Fred

OK! Ive got it now. I had to rotate your picture 45 degrees CCW to get north up and then everything fell into place. However the picture is definitely ic2948 not ic2944 and leaves the old AAT gif I have for dead.

Barry

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Barry. no, no thats not right. proof http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120612.html

[alexch (Alex)]

What a remarkable image!!!

That's 54 hours used exceptionally well. I can smell a likely APOD here. On the side note I could never see a chicken in IC2944 but now I see three chickens there!

Thanks for a wonderful view.

Alex

[Barrykgerdes]

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Barry. no, no thats not right. proof http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120612.html

Hi Fred

Yes the name of that area of ic2944 is also refered to as ic2948 so it will always be a contentious issue

I looked at that NASA photo labelled ic2944 and it is almost identical to an old GIF taken by the AAT some years ago but labelled ic2948. Both pictures only show the center portion of the whole ic.

A couple of years ago when we were all trying to image the Running Chicken at Wiruna and no one could see why it was called the Running Chicken I did some research into it and managed to get a composite DSS image from a screen shot. (attached). If you get the FOV to 2 degrees the running chicken ic2944 is quite obvious.

Barry

[atalas]

Congrats on today's APOD Fred....no surprise there!

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Thanks Louie

I wasnt keen to submit, but given the response here, I thought id give it a shot

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Nice work Freddo ... who needs intensity in their stars anyway

I thiiiiiink we may see this image pop up again a few times in various locations over the coming year

Mike

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Nice work Freddo ... who needs intensity in their stars anyway

I thiiiiiink we may see this image pop up again a few times in various locations over the coming year

Mike

there you go he is the APOD http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html for the 5th of March 2014 - well done Fred

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

there you go he is the APOD http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html for the 5th of March 2014 - well done Fred

aaaah yes, I knew that, hence my post

[Peter Ward]

A well deserved APOD.

[Aussie Pete]

Not too shabby Freddo..well done mate..whats next?

I suppose I better give your scope another clean now your famous

[gvanhau (Geert)]

Congratulations !!!!

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Well done Fred! I always thought Martin's version of a few years back was the signature shot of this region but I think you're now top of the list.

Cheers

Steve