Posted on 11/30/2020 4:09:37 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: The sky is filled with faintly glowing gas, though it can take a sensitive camera and telescope to see it. For example, this twelve-degree-wide view of the northern part of the constellation Cygnus reveals a complex array of cosmic clouds of gas along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. The featured mosaic of telescopic images was recorded through two filters: an H-alpha filter that transmits only visible red light from glowing hydrogen atoms, and a blue filter that transmits primarily light emitted by the slight amount of energized oxygen. Therefore, in this 18-hour exposure image, blue areas are hotter than red. Further digital processing has removed the myriad of point-like Milky Way stars from the scene. Recognizable bright nebulas include NGC 7000 (North America Nebula), and IC 5070 (Pelican Nebula) on the left with IC 1318 (Butterfly Nebula) and NGC 6888 (Crescent Nebula) on the right -- but others can be found throughout the wide field.
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I see George Soros with a slug crawling out his nose.
With or without stars ... that is a Balrog!
In the photo with stars there is a cheeseburger in the lower left side.
If this doesn't makes sense, hopefully the following pics will help to illustrate it...
I see it!
I see it!
It’s a cheeseburger!
Ummmmm......
Do you see any onions?
I see it now, although I saw a cloud formation that looked like a chainsaw buzz up over a beautiful beach in Mexico last week. What do I know?
Some people see Balrogs, some people see chainsaws.
It’s the people who see pie that are bug nuts crazy!
I see him with a .50cal BMG passing thru his commie head.
SPJNK.
A few years ago I got to do an observing session with Al Nagler. Besides bringing some of his great products, he brought out a test copy of a 1x white light night vision device that could be hooked up to his eyepieces. When I got a turn, I looked at Cygnus right off. While it didn’t look that full of gas, it was amazing how much of the gas clouds you could see. We also put it on an eyepiece and mounted it to a 22in Dob a friend of mine has. We pointed the scope at M8 and it was amazing how hard it was to find the edge of the gas cloud. We could easily see the ‘Pillars of Creation” in M16 too. Really nice night.
By the By, he sells that night vision scope for about $2000. Maybe more.
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