Monkey Head Nebula!

777Driver

777Driver
It's a real nebula :) Also known as NGC 2174

edit - Lol, I see it now.. Will never be able to unsee it..
 
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CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
Sapyx said:
Ah, the Human propensity for finding faces in random patterns is once again illustrated. ;)

I'm as guilty as anyone. Check out my Dragon's Head nebula. It's even got two foreground stars for eyes!
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The image doesn't work :( atleast not right now. Could be my 3G connection!

Originally, the Monkey Head Nebula looked like a "macho man" (standing up muscly guy, flexing both arms towards his head) from much further away, and higher on the galactic plain.
But it was quite small back then.
After awhile it just looks like a mess. Until I random looked at it upside down. Lol

Then it became the Monkey Head Nebula!

You can get about 200-300ly closer before it deforms. It fills up most of the canopy, But it looks blurry, so I preferred the further screenshot, which looks sharp from that distance.

About 60ish ly from that screenshot is a system with an ELW, in orbit with 2 Water world's within 3ls, with good views of the Nebula!
Any 'monkey faced' intelligence on that planet would probably assume that's their God of some kind staring in to space.

So far, I've not found anything exciting inside a Nebula, so I tend to just loop around then and have a look what shapes I can see. Lol
 

Jankules

Jankules
Feel free exploring in yours exploring ships coz after thargoids addon, imagine yourself in fully battle citted corvetas with 11ly jump range near cor
 

catanonia

C
Here it is for real taken with my telescope a few years ago in my back yard.

For fun I added in an animation so you can see why it is called what it is :)

Monkeyhead-Animated.gif
 
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Chris Simon

Chris Simon
I don't see it.
I never was able to see the animals in clouds and all that stuff. I feel robbed. [sad]

:)

(It's a damn nice photo of the nebula, nonetheless)
 

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
Bran Tse Mallory said:
I find your concern for my lack of imagination... Troubling! :D

I could of mentioned that a Chimp is not a Monkey but both are Anthropoids so maybe the nebula needs to be renamed? But that would of been a bit picky!
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Chimp Head Nebula doesn't have the same ring to it. Lol
Neither does Anthropoid Heads Nebula. Lol

Besides, I vote to call the Nebula 'Curious George' anyway. Lol
 
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