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pluto2
06-09-08, 07:27 AM
Do you know what this is and how it's called?

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll8/Uri_028/42-17709106.jpg
skaught
06-09-08, 09:39 AM
That is a photo of space.
Pete
06-09-08, 09:57 AM
It looks like the Pleiades, I think... let me check (and I'll check spelling while I'm at it)
Pete
06-09-08, 10:00 AM
No, not the Pleiades. Maybe the Great Nebula in Orion?
Pete
06-09-08, 10:02 AM
No... I can't shake the feeling I've seen it before. I'll keep looking - it's surely a Messier object.

Anyway, it appears to be a superb long-exposure image of a lovely open star cluster, including a fair amount of dust and nebulosity.
blobrana
06-09-08, 11:13 AM
It is the LH 95 stellar nursery in Large Magellanic Cloud

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LH_95
draqon
06-09-08, 05:56 PM
Do you know what this is and how it's called?

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll8/Uri_028/42-17709106.jpg

Why you got friends there? :bugeye:
Pete
06-09-08, 08:11 PM
It is the LH 95 stellar nursery in Large Magellanic Cloud

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LH_95

*tips hat*

Did you recognize it specifically, or did you use better keywords than I?
(Like "stellar nursery", maybe?)
blobrana
06-09-08, 08:46 PM
Did you recognize it specifically

Yeah,
I recognised it.
i also remembered i bloged the story about it being presented at the 2006 General Assembly of the IAU in Prague.