Looks like a skull to me!
The Rosette Nebula is a prominent feature of the winter sky, up past the shoulder of Orion. Not really visible to the naked eye, it will show up in long exposure night sky photos, and astrophotographers use filters which emphasize the Hydrogen-alpha wavelength to capture this cloud of hydrogen dust. The hot young stars which energize the glowing gasses are in the region I used to think of as a donut hole, but ever since another astro imager pointed out the resemblance to a skull I see them now in the orbit of the left eye.
Tech Stuff: Borg 55FL astrograph/ZWO ASI 1600MC/IDAS LPS-V4 Filter/unguided 8 second exposures X 3 hours/PixInsight/ACDSee. Imaged from my yard in Westchester County, 10 miles north of NYC. SQM-L readings 18.0-18.7 .
Looks like a skull to me!
The Rosette Nebula is a prominent feature of the winter sky, up past the shoulder of Orion. Not really visible to the naked eye, it will show up in long exposure night sky photos, and astrophotographers use filters which emphasize the Hydrogen-alpha wavelength to capture this cloud of hydrogen dust. The hot young stars which energize the glowing gasses are in the region I used to think of as a donut hole, but ever since another astro imager pointed out the resemblance to a skull I see them now in the orbit of the left eye.
Tech Stuff: Borg 55FL astrograph/ZWO ASI 1600MC/IDAS LPS-V4 Filter/unguided 8 second exposures X 3 hours/PixInsight/ACDSee. Imaged from my yard in Westchester County, 10 miles north of NYC. SQM-L readings 18.0-18.7 .