Running chicken Nebula IC2944

[RAC]

Not sure what has caused the chromatic aberration on the left of the image, never had that problem before.

14x5min subs + 46 darks @ ISO1600,

Modded 1000D @ -3degC

skywatcher 8in f5 reflector.

Celestron CGE mount.

Baader MPCC.

CLS-CCD LP clip in filter.

Stacked in DSS and processed in PixIsight.

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[PunkJay]

Well done - that's a beautiful image - no idea how you made it to page 7 with no comments!

- j

[RAC]

Thanks. Sometimes this forum moves very fast if there has been a few clear nights around the world lol.

Here is a little better brighter version i did a few days after(processing only). i found the first one a bit flat.

Running chicken IC2944 by meg rac, on Flickr

[PunkJay]

It's a lovely clean image - is this because of your cooled DSLR or the number of darks you took?

[Gina]

That's beautiful - great image

[MikeD]

Missed this one and it is a stunner, clean deep and beautifully detaild, fantastic work.

Mike.

[johnh]

Fantastic result although I can never see the chicken in the title, prefer the brighter version. BOK globules near the centre of the image next to the brighter stars are fascinating objects in themselves.

John.

[RAC]

It's a lovely clean image - is this because of your cooled DSLR or the number of darks you took?

I find there is a large difference between cooling and not cooling the camera.

Its not so much the darks as i get ok results if i don't even use them but then i have to go around and fix hot pixels.

PixInsight is awesome for noise, so many way of dealing with it.

[Quatermass]

Wow thats really nice and I can see the chicken as well amazing, I was out feeding my chickens this morning I feel inspired great image

[alpal]

Nice pic.

Thanks for posting this as it gives me an idea of a good target -

as I also have an 8" f6 Newt & a Canon EOS 1000d.

[Looking Up]

Superb pic, not seen this one before, very detailed! Top marks!

[alpal]

I hope you don't mind.

I had a go at reprocessing your data.

See here:

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii119/alpal2002/RunningChickenStargazers_b_18.jpg

There was a bit more information in the dynamic range & the colour.

[ollypenrice]

Nicely done with a gentle touch. Crisp stars, too.

Where's the chicken???

Olly

[alpal]

Hi Olly,

There seems to be many ideas for where the chicken is:

Flickr: Search Your ESO Pictures

[RAC]

Thanks Olly. I can see some of the ideas in the flickr link alpal posted. I might need a wider angle shot to get the rest in.

I just like the globules near the centre, they look like floating rocks.