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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
He he yeah it can sometimes be a good idea to take a few long looks at a NB image, even over a couple'a days, before settling on an impression... I haven't changed the image since first posting  I do this with Andy's out-there NB images, seldom taking my first impressions as gospel...after a few reviews my eyes usually get tamed to his interpretation and the image he has presented can start to grow on me so the positive aspects can shine through more 
As for the running chicken, well, it is definitely the appearance of the whole nebula in wide field not the traditional Bok globule narrow field close up....although Winston Churchill's cigar is in there 
Mike |
My eyes must be going. Perhaps I've recently grown less sensitive to vivid colours but your point is very valid - you shouldn't base everything on the first look.
I think the point I was trying to make is that there are other things in that nebula that could be interpreted as chickens but given that the whole nebula is called the running chicken perhaps you are correct.
