Yes it does appear to be a comet--maybe the recent Hoenig The starfield in the ad is actually repeated 3 times in different directions to fill the ad space (I guess there weren't enough stars in the sky to make a big enough photo?) The familiar place to me is a red star with kind of a check mark asterism next to it and the teeny Orion's belt next to that. I wrote to the company asking if they knew the part of the sky used in their ad. Of course, I'm not seriously expecting a reply. Hopefully I'll find a reference to a checkmarkOrion'sbeltasterism in my oberserving notes somewhere. . . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Cooper" <acooper@xxxxxxxxx> To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 9:59 PM Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: cubicle astronomy > > > The photo does appear to be a real starfield, but the object is clearly > pasted in, looks cometary to me. No clue as to which starfield, but it > does look like I should recognize it. > > Andrew > > > kellerjt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > On page A7 of today's (9/25) Wall Street Journal there is a deep sky photo > > of ? used as an ad for Constellation Energy Group and it looks so familiar > > except I think this big elliptical galaxy or supernova may be superimposed > > onto the photo. Anyway, please if you have access to the WSJ can you tell > > me if you know this part of the sky. > > -- > > This message is from the AZ-Observing mailing list. See this message's > > header if you want info about unsubscribing or the list's archive. > > > > This is a discussion list. Please send personal inquiries directly to > > the message author. In other words, do not use "reply" for personal > > messages. Thanks. > > -- > > Andrew Cooper > Tucson, AZ > mailto:acooper@xxxxxxxxx > http://whitethorn.house.home.att.net > -- > This message is from the AZ-Observing mailing list. See this message's > header if you want info about unsubscribing or the list's archive. > > This is a discussion list. Please send personal inquiries directly to > the message author. In other words, do not use "reply" for personal > messages. Thanks. > > -- This message is from the AZ-Observing mailing list. See this message's header if you want info about unsubscribing or the list's archive. This is a discussion list. Please send personal inquiries directly to the message author. In other words, do not use "reply" for personal messages. Thanks.