I guess I would rather see a comical monkey face than a tarantula. I have yet to have a tarantula shape really seem apparent in that nebula.
It is funny how the brain tries to do pattern recognition into things that are not of course not intended to be any sort of pattern. A sort of Rorschach test. As we all know quite a few astronomical objects have names related to the shapes people see in them. I never did see a running chicken down south no matter how hard I looked
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/....milies/lol.gif And I took an extremely long description on that nebula.
The real famous ones are the face in the moon and that face on Mars but there are many others. Heck the constillations themselves required quite a bit of wine to dream up the images the Greeks saw in those.
Thanks for the other images that people see in objects Paddy but I will not be able to check those anytime soon (behind earth from my point of view)
Off topic note on Tarantula season: October up north here is tarantula season where they all come out and wanter about 'lookin for love'. So I have seen many actual tarantula. I counted seeing almost 20 on a road from a freeway to a very large California star party here called CalStar last year (that was peak tarantula season).