78 AUSTRALIAN SKY & TELESCOPE JULY 2016
▴TINY NEBULA Michael Flugel As is often the case, this nebula in Canis Major has more than one name — Sharpless 2-301, Gum 5
and RCW 6. Michael used a GSO RC14 telescope, Atik 383L+ camera, RGB and H-alpha filters for a total of 10 hours exposure.▴ FOWL PLAY
Greg Burrows
Known variously
as the Running
Chicken Nebula
or the Lambda
Centauri Nebula,
IC 2948 is an
emission nebula
with a star cluster
(IC 2944) on top.
The small dark
patches in the
middle are known
as Thackeray’s
Globules. Greg
used an Astro-
Physics 130EDT
refractor, Losmandy
G-11 mount, SBIG
STL-11000 camera
and Ha, OIII and
SIII filters. Exposure
was 10 x 600
seconds.Gallery