Red Rooster

We've had some pretty clear nights with good seeing lately, so I've been up all hours gathering as many photons as I can. This is IC2944, the Running Chicken Nebula, in the constellation of Centaurus. The name comes from the small dark part at the top right looks like a chicken running upside down around that curved brighter nebulosity. Don't worry if you can't see it. Took me 18 months to see it.

Making pikelets

Just some photos of Hayden helping Mummy make some pikelets this afternoon.

How exciting:

Enjoying the spoils:

Ok, so that one didn't turn out that well:

Gabriela Mistral Nebula

NGC3324, commonly referred to as the Gabriela Mistral Nebula, is the roundish nebula bottom centre here. It's located in the constellation Carina, and the nebulosity you can see on the left hand side is the corner of the massive Eta Carinae Nebula that you may have seen before.