Need help identifing picture

[tlgerdes (Trevor)]

Just returned from our annual conference in the US. On all the material presented, they used the attached picture on the intro slide. Everyone from Aust was coming up to me and asking what/where is it in the sky.

I couldnt answer them. So I thought i'd ask the audience.

Sorry, dont know the image scale. Cant vouch for colour correctness either. Looks like there could be planetary in the top right corner of the pic.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

To be completely honest Trevor, it looks like a PhotoShop made image. Not real.
I could be wrong but it looks like someone made it up.

[Keshdogga (Casey)]

http://www.tineye.com/ try this website it's a reverse image search.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

It looks like a really really bad LMC with Tarantula.


but that's only a really really bad guess

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Here's the matching image using the link Casey provided.

It is the only image on the whole internet that matches.

Single Match Result
Searched over 1.8627 billion images in 0.010 seconds.

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-pho...ace-nebula.php

So I am guessing it is a piece of space artwork.

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

I agree with Ken.

Sort of looks like a blurry LMC with a tarantula looking neb in the yellowish area, but really seems like someone has cut and pasted a bunch of out of focus globulars all over the joint.

Not natural at all. Taking a look at the match Ken has given, it seems its "created" as an artistic rendition to look a bit like a "starry pic" but nothing like the real thing. I certainly couldnt identify a real image in the mosaic on the page...

Cheers

Chris

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

I tried that tineye and came up with "Blue space nebula" but has been re-coloured and altered. See - http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-pho...ace-nebula.php

I think it is a fractal altered photo though.

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Nice timing Ken, was wasting time looking for other items before hitting Submit

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by mswhin63

Nice timing Ken, was wasting time looking for other items before hitting Submit

Yeah, it's the only image. Nothing else even comes close.

[Keshdogga (Casey)]

That's a pity I think we'd all like it if that image wasn't shooped Obviously that reverse image search could be wrong but i think it's safe to say this was quite the shop =]

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by Keshdogga

Obviously that reverse image search could be wrong but i think it's safe to say this was quite the shop =]

The reverse image search works quite easy and successfully. It is using the same simple algorithm that is used in Registar to align images of different orientations, sizes, and quality.
Using the algorithm for 'search' is quite a clever idea actually

[Keshdogga (Casey)]

When you put it like that Ken it sounds legitimate Good to know

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by Keshdogga

When you put it like that Ken it sounds legitimate Good to know

I just tested it on an ordinary run-of-the-mill Orion Nebula image and it returned 9,200 similar images

Some of the images that turned up from an Orion Neb image I inserted:

[tlgerdes (Trevor)]

Thanks guys, other sources also confirmed what you have found.

They also used a pretty good pic of M45 in our presentations which was easy to recognise, yet I couldnt pick this one.

I as well also thought LMC/Tarantula initially but couldnt recognise any detail to confirm it.

[Terry B]

It does look vaguely like the SMC at radio frequency but dosn't match. It might be based on that area of the sky but not at visual frequencies.
The attached pic is a 21cm image of the SMC.
Cheers