Many of you will recognize this image as the Central America portion of the North American Nebula, NGC 7000. It is kind of interesting to take a familiar object (or a part of it), offer a *different* orientation, and then it seems like something else. I think it looks like a Bat:
http://www.jthommes.com/Astro/images/Wall_MN152_Bat_med.jpg
A more conventional orientation and details are here:
http://www.jthommes.com/Astro/NGC7000Wall.htm
There is also a H-Alpha image here:
http://www.jthommes.com/Astro/NGC7000Wall.htm#H-Alpha
You can click on these images for a larger version.
Scope - Explore Scientific "Levy" 152 mm Mak-Newt
Camera - ST8300M (Baader Ha, RGB filters)
http://www.jthommes.com/Astro/images/Wall_MN152_Bat_med.jpg
A more conventional orientation and details are here:
http://www.jthommes.com/Astro/NGC7000Wall.htm
There is also a H-Alpha image here:
http://www.jthommes.com/Astro/NGC7000Wall.htm#H-Alpha
You can click on these images for a larger version.
Scope - Explore Scientific "Levy" 152 mm Mak-Newt
Camera - ST8300M (Baader Ha, RGB filters)
Jim Thommes
Mak-Newt 152 mm
C8
Megrez II APO
Zenithstar 66 mm APO
G11/Gemini
ST8300M
Artemis285 Camera
Canon 350D DSLR
http://jthommes.com/Astro/
Nice one Jim.
