Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  IC 2944  ·  IC 2948  ·  PK294-00.1  ·  The star λCen  ·  lam Cen  ·  lam Cen Nebula  ·  lambda Cen nebula
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Planetary Nebula PK 294-0.1, Paul Hancock
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Planetary Nebula PK 294-0.1

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Planetary Nebula PK 294-0.1, Paul Hancock
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Planetary Nebula PK 294-0.1

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Okay, so all these cloudy nights and isolation has given me time to really play with the little data I do have. To that end I was playing with my "Heart of the Chicken" image, which is a crop of the center of IC2944 the Running Chicken Nebula, and I noticed something odd towards the lower left of the image. In my SHO image I chose from the outset to linear fit to the weakest channel, which I think has produced a nice result, but when I zoomed in on this weird "star" it just looked like a blue fuzzy sphere. I searched around and found a thread on Ice in Space (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?p=1365814) and discovered it was actually the planetary nebula PK 294-0.1! So I went back and had a look at my original Mure Denoised frames, there was definitely something there in Ha and Oiii but nothing in Sii. So I produced a HOO image this time linear fitted to the stronger Ha channel. Now given this is a 71mm refractor and has only 4 hours of data excluding the Sii channel I'm not getting anything to win awards but I'm happy to have found something that appears to be very rarely imaged!

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Planetary Nebula PK 294-0.1, Paul Hancock