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Old 23-05-2015, 12:10 PM
Placidus (Mike and Trish)
Narrowing the band

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IC 4628 NE part. Alvin meets Jar Jar and ET

Remember Alvin the Chipmunk. Here is what happens if Alvin gets into the matter transporter at the same time as Jar Jar Binks. Heaps fully bad.

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We notice Alvin's happy, mischievous face, rakishly tilted (with two mammalian eyes) toward top left. Superimposed is Jar Jar's, with an additional green, reptilian eye. Alvin is dressed for dinner, his dusty dark dinner-suit silk ruffle running diagonally down toward bottom right, where we can see he is going to have prawns for dinner - the glow at bottom right is part of the Prawn Nebula. (Less disturbed individuals see neither Alvin nor Jar Jar but the head of a cobra).

A complex region: toward 3 o'clock we can also discern the small and distant figure of ET.

A great puzzle is why this particular region, hugely strong in H-alpha (mapped to green), is also quite strong in SII (mapped to red), implying old, dredged-up material, while being weak in OIII (mapped to blue), perhaps implying not so much ionization energy around.

Green Ha 2hrs, Blue OIII 3hrs, Red SII 3hrs. Aspen CG16M on 20" PlaneWave CDK, on MI 750 fork. Field 36'arc, north up.
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