Zooming in to the Pelican Nebula
Zooming in to the Pelican Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Filipe Alves
Explanation: Where on the sky is the Pelican Nebula?
APOD features many objects on the
night sky, but usually does not have the resources to show exactly where on the night sky each objects lies. Today, thanks to inventive digital manipulations of Filipe Alves, it is possible to show you exactly where on the sky the photogenic
Pelican Nebula can be found. Clicking on the
above arrow will cause many browsers to download and play a spectacular movie that zooms from the perspective of an unaided human eye to that of a powerful telescope. The observatory dome visible on the right is part of
Calar Alto Observatory in southern
Spain. The image zooms into the
constellation of Cygnus, passes the
Zooming in to the Pelican Nebula
