Ref – B. Pettersson, "Young Stars and Dust Clouds in Puppis and Vela", p 54 in Handbook of Star Forming Regions, Vol 2. The Southern Sky, ed. B Reipurth, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2008.
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The tails of these cometary globules point away from the Vela supernova remnant and zeta puppis and may have been affected by zeta puppis in the last million years.
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My data were acquired automatically with CCDAutoPilot4 running Maxim4.62. The system was guided with an SBIG ST-402 on an Astrodon MonsterMOAG. Astrodon Generation 2 LRGB filters were used. Data were calibrated and processed in CCDStack and Photoshop CS3.