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Old 14-02-2008, 12:56 PM
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Query re image - AS&T

I've looked and looked and don't fully understand the image on page 21 of AS&T Mar/Apr 2008. It's a great photo, wonderfully conceptualized and executed, but, if it is meant to be the dark constellation, the "Emu", where is the head, namely the Coalsack. I just cannot make it out, nor see Crux. Would some kind soul point it out to me - I must be losing sight and mind in my old age!

STOP PRESS:- OK, a bit of googling and I have found the following:-

http://www.csiro.au/news/EurekaSciencePhotography.html

The image on page 21 is cropped - we have a headless emu! (Mind you, the small image in the csiro article appears to cut off the rock carving!)

Here we go - the full image is here:-

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/Ab...amples/emu.htm

Some explanation from Barnaby:-

“This was a difficult image to capture. The emu is so big in the sky that the picture had to be pieced together from 520 individual images...”

That is impressive!
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