Discovery of an Amazing Object in the Sky

I was observing on the night of 31st of March this year.

Just after the midnight I chanced upon this amazing discovery.

The night sky was crystal clear. The telescope was pointing towards Virgo, the Virgin.
And this is what I got.

Even though the image was shaken up a bit, the image itself intrigued me.
I therefore took one more image.

I had never seen anything like this before. This object looked exactly like a planetary nebula.
A planetary nebula is an astronomical object consisting of a glowing shell of gas
and plasma formed by certain types of stars at the end of their lives.
There are some very nice examples of this kind exist - but this is unique indeed.

Step 1 The Kiss Nebula

After some image processing this is what I could get out of the image above.

I think this object should should be called appropriately Kiss Nebula.

Comments

[superdave5481]

I am very familiar with this kind of faked photograph. There are few ways of doing this. I have done this kind of thing in black and white film in my home darkroom and made ghosts in a rail car (an awesome double exposure print I should have sold). I have done this kind of thing with Photoshop. I have done this doing double exposures in a 35mm SLR. I am a published professional photographer (just not published as much as I need to be). This is great though, Cheers!

[Dream Dragon]

That is very cool, a well planned, nicely documented and elegantly carried through prank.

[rimar2000]

Nice joke! Maybe a Godess is kissing us...

When I was young (younger than today, I say) I studied astronomy. A night I was at the photographic laboratory and had a fun idea: I took a sensitive plate, sprinkled over it a little talcum powder, I presented it a moment to light and then revealed. The result was a beautiful "constellation unknown", with which I had fun listening to the speculation of all my professors. Obviously, everyone was sure "it is this" or "it is that"!

[AlphaRomeo]

yes I now what you mean -

The one I presented here was sent as press release on 31st morning and believe me I had a few tv channels guys asking me for an interview -

Then there was another one of shoe foot print - called shoe print nebula or something.