Gee - I saw it in the upper nebula!
Bruce Jensen
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--- Paul LeFevre <lefevre@No-Spam> wrote:
> Cool, I actually see it (in the lower nebula)!
> Don't let this out to too many people, otherwise you'll soon have a
> religious
> cult forming that will claim George Washington is not only the father of
> our
> country, but the father of the universe...:)
>
> Paul
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Crisp [mailto:rdcrisp@No-Spam]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:13 PM
> > To: sf-bay-tac@No-Spam
> > Subject: [TAC] George Washington Nebula
> >
> >
> > This is a weird one to me.
> >
> > Once in a while it seems that we all "discover" something
> > where others have
> > overlooked it.
> >
> > For me that happened on Saturday night.
> >
> > I was imaging in the backyard; enjoying the first clear night
> > I had seen in
> > what seemed an eternity. I had been battling dew, and was
> > only partially
> > victorious when I saw something on the screen that really
> > struck me as odd and
> > amusing.
> >
> > Call it a Rorschach Pattern, call it something else. For me
> > if IC2162 was
> > called The George Washington Nebula, it would be named at least as
> > descriptively as The Pelican Nebula.
> >
> > This is not one of my better shots from a technical execution
> > perspective, but
> > the bizarre appearance of Geo W (not the current President
> > but the first one
> > to hold that title) made me feel compelled to post it on my
> > website and to
> > notify you folks of its appearance.
> >
> > Without further ado here it is:
> >
> > http://www.rdcrisp.darkhorizons.org/ic2162_emission_nebula_page.htm
> >
> > George shows up better in the Ha image for me.
> >
> > Weird for sure!
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
>
=====
Cheers,
Bruce Jensen
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