RCW 62 Running Chicken

Central area of the Running Chicken Nebula, also known as IC 2944, RCW 62 and Gum 42. Lambda Centauri (HD 100841, HIP 56561) is the bright star in the upper right of the image and is actually much closer to us at 380 ly than the Nebula.

Image Details
Camera STL-11000M
Scope AT12 IN
Mount Paramount ME
Guiding 5 Sec Selfguide
Exposure 18*10 mins = 180 mins = 3:00 Ha
Location Donvale
Date 2017-03-07
Coordinates RA: 11h 37m 46s
DEC: -63° 20' 33"
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RCW 62 Running Chicken

Annotations generated from the plate solve · OpenNGC · Sharpless · RCW · LBN · HYG