Elephant's Trunk
A pillar of dense star forming areas. If unaided human eyes were able to see it, the Trunk would appear around the same length as a full moon. For a sense of scale, our Sun and all the major planets in our solar system could fit in just one pixel. Camera: SBIG STX-16803. Telescope: PlaneWave CDK14.
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Elephant's Trunk
A pillar of dense star forming areas. If unaided human eyes were able to see it, the Trunk would appear around the same length as a full moon. For a sense of scale, our Sun and all the major planets in our solar system could fit in just one pixel. Camera: SBIG STX-16803. Telescope: PlaneWave CDK14.
About Artist
Jeff Lovelace
Category winner of the Royal Museum Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 and Winner of Flickr's Your Best Shot 2020, J K Lovelace is passionate about capturing inspiring images of earth and space. He currently resides in Santa Barbara and remotely controls super-cooled telescopes housed in an observatory in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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