In The Southern skies lies this massive nebula called the Running chicken - IC 2944.
Seen toward the center - top of the image are small, dark molecular clouds rich in obscuring cosmic dust.
Called Thackeray's Globules for their discoverer, these "eggs" are potential sites for the gravitational condensation of new stars, although their fates are uncertain as they are also being rapidly eroded away by the intense radiation from nearby young stars.
Together with patchy glowing gas and complex regions of reflecting dust, these massive and energetic stars form the open cluster Collinder 249.
This gorgeous skyscape spans about 60 light-years at the nebula's estimated 6,000 light-year distance.(Text from APOD)
16" F8 Hypergraph
FLI Proline 16803
ASA DDM Mount - NO guiding
Ha-S2-o3 image mapped as RGB
HA- 3 HRS bin 1
O3,S2 - 1 hrs each bin 2
RGB - 20 min per channel bin2
Total of 6 HRS
Imaged from Tivoli farm Namibia July 2018