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      IC 2944 Running Chicken Nebula
      Wallpaper author:
      Rodney Hughes

      17 May 2026

      IC 2944 Running Chicken Nebula

      IC 2944, Running Chicken Nebula, is an open star cluster in the constellation Centaurus that was processed in PixInsight as a mosaic, HSO image. Resolution is 5.43 arcsec/pixel. The bright star is Lambda Centauri.

      Dataset from which the image was processed

      IC 2944 Mosaic

      5 credit

      Open
      Telescope Live
      CHI-6-CCD

      IC 2944 Running Chicken Nebula