Sky Signs
Few things embrace the character of the Southwest and Arizona more than the ancient sun-signs of
petroglyphs
carved into weather-worn and sun-bleached rocks. These symbols portray reverence of the sky and the Sun's life
sustaining journey across it. Where else but in the southwest could a native peoples, like the Tohono O'odham,
transform this solar synchronocity into a
personal journey through life? Like a man in a spiral maze, we travel
through the ever-changing course of daily experience. This nebula appears to be of a similar form writ large on the sky.
The image is a composite of many data sets including:
ST10, FSQ-106, RGB 30:30:30
STL11000, FSQ-106, Ha 600 minutes
ST10, RCOS 20in telescope, LRGB 120:20:20:20 (center)
DSS stars (away from Helix, colored with FSQ data)
Click on the above image for a larger
version.
Thanks to Jay GaBany and
Mel Martin
for allowing me to process this data.
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