First of all, I love the image! I love the colors! But I must admit that it is kind of hard to see the Pelican.
The Pelican Nebula in red and blue. M. Petrasko, M. Evenden, U. Mishra (Insight Obs.)
The Pelican Nebula. Wikimedia Commons/Tim Stone, Bert Scheuneman, Marco Favro,
Adriano Valvasori, Paolo Demaria, Giuseppe Donatiello
So I want you to take a look at a picture of the Pelican Nebula where it is much easier to see the pelican! That is the picture at right. This is what a numbers mean:
1) 57 Cyg, a nice blue star of spectral class B5
2) The "eye" of the pelican
3) The "corner of the mouth" or the end of the beak
4) The ionization front (also the "neck" of the pelican)
5) The outline of the beak
6) 56 Cyg, a modest A-type star similar to Altair
I have used the same numbers for the APOD. The APOD still doesn't look much like a pelican to me, but please do try to "pelicanize" it in your heads!
Ann
First of all, I love the image! I love the colors! But I must admit that it is kind of hard to see the Pelican.
[float=left][attachment=0]Pelican Nebula annotated 2.png[/attachment][c][size=75][color=#0040FF]The Pelican Nebula in red and blue. M. Petrasko, M. Evenden, U. Mishra (Insight Obs.)[/color][/size][/c][/float][float=right][attachment=1]Pelican Nebula annotated.png[/attachment][c][size=75][color=#0040FF]The Pelican Nebula. Wikimedia Commons/Tim Stone, Bert Scheuneman, Marco Favro,
Adriano Valvasori, Paolo Demaria, Giuseppe Donatiello[/color][/size][/c][/float]
So I want you to take a look at a picture of the Pelican Nebula where it is much easier to see the pelican! That is the picture at right. This is what a numbers mean:
1) 57 Cyg, a nice blue star of spectral class B5
2) The "eye" of the pelican
3) The "corner of the mouth" or the end of the beak
4) The ionization front (also the "neck" of the pelican)
5) The outline of the beak
6) 56 Cyg, a modest A-type star similar to Altair
I have used the same numbers for the APOD. The APOD still doesn't look much like a pelican to me, but please do try to "pelicanize" it in your heads! :D
Ann