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.

Step 2: Details in Negative Image

The details of the nebula are seen
much better in this negative image.

Step 3: The Kiss Nebula -

This is the fully processed image of the Kiss Nebula

The technical details

The field of view of the camera frame about 2 minutes of arc (which is about 15th the size of the Moon as seen from the earth. )

The size of the nebula is then about 30 second of arc.

The camera used -  Fast Optical On Line System  ( in short FOOLS camera)

To get the desirable effect 'smooch channel' filter was applied.

This image was made on April 1, at 00:00:00

Step 4: Ha Ha

Hope you did not take me too Alpha Canis Majorisly i.e. Siriusly

(aamean  seriously)



Well - I simply generated some star field  image, got my wife to kiss on sheet of paper that I scanned and simply super imposed
this image over the star field image. 

Now played with the image - to make it blur, shake - etc.