Cosmic Portrait in Profile: SH2-311 Skull and Crossbones Nebula
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I finally turned my scope around and looked south. This is probably at the very southern extreme of what I can image. Only getting a few really good hours when it finally rose high enough. That didn't stop me from trying the entire time it was over 10degrees. Ended up needing to cull about half the frames though being so low there is a lot of atmosphere between me and space that caused issues.
Usually referred to as the Skull and Crossbones nebula, I was completely struck by how much it looks like a person in profile looking off to the left in this image with a long slender neck of gas and nebula and possibly some sort of headress on. Maybe like one of those old Eqyptian statues.
I absolutely enjoyed trying some other palettes with my Perfect Palette Picker and made a pretty cool SHO-OHS mirror image.
The nebula itself has a lot of interesting structure. 2 different knots of very bright hydrogen and sii and some very large arcs of OIII. Spitzer alone discovered 45 young stellar objects within the area here. Maybe it is because it is so far south in the sky there isn't much listed in any of the catalogues for it. There are two areas Haffner19 and 18 which is home to young open star clusters. Even the bright star HD64315 which gets a lot of credit in this area is the star ionizing the neck structure. All the interesting objects are above it!
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Absolutely spectacular Frank!
The beauty of living near the equator is that we get to image many objects both in Northern and Southern hemispheres. This is one of them.
Will give it a shot once the rain stops falling…in this wet dry season! 😅
It's mind-boggling. You are uniquely able to marry workflow, art, and science into compelling videos. Thanks.
Thanks!!
Brilliant !!!
Awesome! I saw Terminator, and E.T. looking out from the "ear" in the last picture. He even has catchlight in his eye. 😄😃
Nice work Frank!
Thanks Bill!
What a cool target to image! It really paid out for you to image that low above the horizon. Amazing work! Unfortunately from my position this is most likely below the horizon already.
Your comparison to those ancient Egyptian statues really makes sense to me. I knew I know the shape when I have seen the thumpnail of the video.
I can only say that the ancient Egyptians most likely had more knowledge about time and space than we could ever image.
My first impression was that the image was similar to some of the imaging done on mummies. Pretty interesting object, presented very well.
awesome
Very good. Looks like an alien head with long neck. So ET does exist.
That mirror image 🤌🏻 would look great hanging on a wall.
Fantastic work on this!. The portrait reminds me of the "Harvesters" from the movie Independence Day.
Very good detail considering the low altitude from the USA! Nice colors too :).
Maybe it's an image of a ancient Alien Frank
Shhhh dont let the secret out!
I have that same image and reorientated it to look like the profile image, uncanny
I got something Maybe you like to develop, it's from a selfish point of view mine. I have a problem with high tension wires when like imaging Orion horsehead until it clears and I get about 30 images and then it goes into the trees so those wires make me throw out about 25 to 30 images because it makes like dark light bands across my final image. I was wondering if there's any way you can make a script that will take care of that like it will take the image before or the image after the image I'm working on and replace the dark streak with a good image so this way by the time you get everything together It will look nice and smooth
I hope that was clear to you when I was trying to explain
At 3:38 I see a very angry Popeye the Sailor
2 persons different ethnicity ❤😊