Comments on: And I dream I’m an Eagle…

By: Douglas

Douglas — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:55:38 +0000

Thanks for the comment about the filters! Actually, the 3 filters are in the visible range: B (blue), V (green) and R (red), without near infrared. We’ve updated the page to reflect this:
http://www.eso.org/gallery/v/ESOPIA/Nebulae/phot-26a-09-hires.tif.html

By: snuffy

snuffy — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:13:33 +0000

Phil, you saw this through your 25 cm telescope when you were a kid? 1/4 of a meter? about 10 inches? that’s a nice scope!

By: Nevy C

Nevy C — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:53:14 +0000

Am I dreaming or is it all real? This now serves as my desktop wallpaper! I’m off to listen to the soaring melodies of “Eagle”.

By: Ed Myers

Ed Myers — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:09:54 +0000

“…and I dreamed I can spread my wings.
Flying high, high,
like a bird in the sky…”

Yep, longtime ABBA fan here!

By: drksky

drksky — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:51:36 +0000

…using my 25 cm telescope…

Is that considered small for an amateur scope?? When I was a lad, I was given a 70mm Tasco. Ugh! It’s a wonder I’m still interested in astronomy after that fiasco.

By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:13:19 +0000

14. Eskil Says:

I downloaded the VAST version, just to see how detailed it would be, but my computer didn’t appreciate the awesome vastness. Either that, or it found itself too insignificatn when faced with such enormity of space, and promptly decided to crash itself to wipe its memory of what it had seen.

Total Perspective Vortex?

J/P=?

By: bruceleeeowe

bruceleeeowe — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:28:43 +0000

fascinating picture.

By: Eskil

Eskil — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:27:58 +0000

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:10:49 +0000

Mama Mia!

By: tsmiljanich

tsmiljanich — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:41:51 +0000

A little ABBA love from the BA? We share a “guilty pleasure.”

By: Stone Age Scientist

Stone Age Scientist — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:22:32 +0000

Charles Boyer @ #2,

A true and simple revelation. I never saw it that way before.

By: Just cool… « Steve Fischer’s Random Blog

Just cool… « Steve Fischer’s Random Blog — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:42:33 +0000

[...] … to see images of a nebula 7000 light years [...]

By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:28:57 +0000

This was always one of my favorites, mostly because of the close-up, if somewhat fuzzy, black and white image of the “star queen” dust formation in the center, as published in Burnham’s Celestial Handbook, vol. 3, pp 1786(!).

By: Stone Age Scientist

Stone Age Scientist — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:27:46 +0000

The Professor may be a bit hard to find, I believe he was recently xpeld.

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Phil, you’re back in full form. We likeeee.

Hmmm, is it me or is your pareidolic sense just too infectious? I think I see a leaping jaguar in the middle of the nebula. And why, by the way, is it called Eagle, when it looks more like an overturned crab? Not that there’s anything inelegant about an overturned crab…..

By: Adrian Lopez

Adrian Lopez — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:47:31 +0000

Speaking of pictures, what’s the status of that Celestron imaging contest in which you’re the judge?

By: Reginald

Reginald — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:23:34 +0000

Eagle? That looks much much more like an octopus, someone get PZ on the phone!

By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:44:23 +0000

Yeah, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines……

J/P=?

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:11:33 +0000

…

(speechless)

By: Michael L

Michael L — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:00:47 +0000

That is now my new desktop background!

By: ZERO

ZERO — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:45:05 +0000

Magnificent!

By: Charles Boyer

Charles Boyer — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:41:10 +0000

When one comes to think of it, stuff like this, and the constellations too — they are classic examples of pareidolia.

By: tacitus

tacitus — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:35:47 +0000

And I dream I can spread my wings…