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Central America

Started by jthommes, 08/23/2011 03:53AM
Posted 08/23/2011 03:53AM Opening Post
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)

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/
Posted 08/23/2011 05:15AM #1
Batman returns! wink Nice one Jim.

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Posted 08/23/2011 07:06AM #2
Lots of nice detail in your image.

Rolando
Posted 08/26/2011 04:53AM #3
Floyd, Rolando,
Thanks for the comments.

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/
Posted 08/29/2011 10:50PM #4
Nice one Jim.

Robert

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