Something about this makes me laugh! <insert Pac Man eating noise>
Courtesy: http://www.britastro.org/picture/arc04/index07.html By Peter Carson. NGC 281 "the Pac Man nebula" in Cassiopeia RA 0h52m Dec +56d38m A 30 minute exposure on Kodak Elitechrome 200 film, at the f5.4 prime focus of a 100mm Televue refractor, autoguided using an ST4, on a G11 Losmandy mount. The photograph was taken in late last year. The slide was scanned and slightly contrast stretched
with Adobe Photoshop. North is to the left of the image. |
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