This little fellow sits up in the sky, smiling and winking at us! It's cold in space, so he wears a parka!This planetary nebula is famous for looking like an Eskimo. It's actually a bright nebula roughly 2870 light years away in the constellation Gemini. The Hubble has taken an image of this cloud, but beware: the Hubble's excellent resolution erases all resemblance to an Eskimo. Instead, the Hubble's is the Mummy Nebula.
This image was 25x4' taken with the Atik 16 through the AT8RC and an IDAS-LPS-P2.
2 comments:
Nice detail on a difficult object, Val.
Thanks, Rory! Of course, the key here is to get the "Eskimo" details. I've always thought the resemblance striking. I wish the left eye were a bit more open, and the smile larger.
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