https://freerepublic.com/tag/ngc7841/ en-us Fri, 1 Nov 2013 21:45:11 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3086541/posts Explanation: NGC 7841 is probably known as the Smoke Nebula, found in the modern constellation of Frustriaus, the frustrated astrophotographer. Only a few light-nanoseconds from planet Earth, The Smoke Nebula is not an expanding supernova remnant along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, though it does look a lot like one. Instead it was created by flash photography of rising smoke. The apparently rich starfield is actually composed of water droplets sprayed from a plant mister by an astrophotographer grown restless during a recent stretch of cloudy weather in Sweden. A single exposure and three external flashes were triggered... NASA https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3086541/posts#comment Fri, 1 Nov 2013 21:45:11 GMT