The prawn is easily identifiable, occupying the bottom right quadrant.
Alvin the chipmunk, with his cheery, mischievous mammalian face, occupies the top right quadrant.
Just above dead centre (between Alvin and the Prawn) is a tiny but unmistakable ET, wearing a flowing opera cape.
Now look more closely at Alvin, and you will see that he is in a quantum superposition (a la Picasso) with Jar Jar Binks, with his all too reptilian eye (so there are three eyes altogether).
Notice how the left hand half of the image is turbulent, contrasty, with black, impenetrable dust, implying youth. Conversely, the right hand half is much more gentle, with wispy, soft contours, implying ripe repose. This is reminiscent of a very similar region in Carina with NGC 3603 bursting new and hot from thick turbulent dust on the left, and older, more gentle residual arches and billows on the right.
Aspen CG16M on 20 inch PlaneWave. 35 x 1 hr subs. Field 73 min arc, North up. Acquisition and processing with our Selene and GoodLook respectively.
Great project guys very solid looking and full of intricate tit bits everywhere
I'm usually able to see your strange shapes and figures in nebulae and I can see Ja Ja and Lewis's Orson Welles profile (also looks like Lenin or Hitchcock) but Alvin is alluding me, unless he is more central in the top half of the image, that looks a bit fox face or cat like to me...? As for ET do you mean that nicely defined little bent finger feature just above centre?...that looks like ET's phone home finger to me at least...
Great project guys very solid looking and full of intricate tit bits everywhere
I'm usually able to see your strange shapes and figures in nebulae and I can see Ja Ja and Lewis's Orson Welles profile (also looks like Lenin or Hitchcock) but Alvin is alluding me, unless he is more central in the top half of the image, that looks a bit fox face or cat like to me...? As for ET do you mean that nicely defined little bent finger feature just above centre?...that looks like ET's phone home finger to me at least...
Mike
Thanks Mike!
Alvin is rather a bunch of spare parts with some user assembly required, but the parts are there, and I can't help seeing him instantly and powerfully.
Great project guys very solid looking and full of intricate tit bits everywhere
I'm usually able to see your strange shapes and figures in nebulae and I can see Ja Ja and Lewis's Orson Welles profile (also looks like Lenin or Hitchcock) but Alvin is alluding me, unless he is more central in the top half of the image, that looks a bit fox face or cat like to me...? As for ET do you mean that nicely defined little bent finger feature just above centre?...that looks like ET's phone home finger to me at least...
Mike
See, I was thinking Hitchcock and Homer too, but it kept bugging me, and I figured it was more Orson Welles.
Alvin is rather a bunch of spare parts with some user assembly required, but the parts are there, and I can't help seeing him instantly and powerfully.
Ah ok, so Alvin is Ja Ja..got it, and yes I thought that little defined finger looked like ET but it was kinda upside down so I was confused
Lots of great detail there M&T, should be an epic project when done!
Thanks Andy. Not sure if we've got the stamina to do OIII and SII. We've already got OIII and SII for the central four panels, but that's still four to go.
Great photos...both, but I guess I'm inclined to like the higher contrast version which just seems more dramatic. Your photo inspires me to try this again with my new 16-200 chip. Given the moon some Ha over the next few days might provide an interesting comparison to my previous effort with an 8300 CCD.
Parallax.
I was waiting for this one. 
