#Eye Of God

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Eye of God - Helix Nebula

The Helix Nebula, also known as NGC 7293, is one of the closest planetary nebulae to Earth, located approximately 650 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius.

It is often referred to as the "Eye of God" due to its appearance in images, which resembles a large eye.

Credits: NASA, NOAO, ESA, the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), and T.A. Rector (NRAO)

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Helix Nebula

[danskjavlarna]

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From all-seeing eyes to cats' eyes, see my eyes gallery.

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The Helix Nebula / Eye of God

A planetary nebula in Aquarius

I got another 2 hours of exposure time on the Helix Nebula in the Aquarius constellation and integrated it with my data from last year (about another 2h) to produce this shot. This is a narrowband image made from captured hydrogen and oxygen emissions.

The Helix Nebula is an absolutely gorgeous target specifically because of its rarity. Most planetary nebulae (the products of stars collapsing into white dwarfs) are extremely small because they're far away. The Helix isn't any bigger than them, but it's incredibly close to us, at just under 700 Ly from Earth, which makes it appear 20 times the linear size of other planetary nebulae (e.g. the Crab Nebula or the Ring Nebula).

Musings on the acquisition process after the cut.

This is easily the hardest target I've ever shot. From the USA, it barely rises above 20 degrees, giving a pretty short window to shoot it each night and more atmosphere to shoot through, magnifying the effects of poor seeing. Aquarius has a relatively low density of bright stars, which makes guiding frustrating at poor focal ratios (which are unavoidable at high focal lengths on any kind of budget). And, of course, the Helix is fairly dim and diffuse, requiring lots of exposure time to capture good enough signal for an image. All that together meant that the two hours of data I captured for this shot took five clear nights to pull together. An absolute mess.

I achieved the gold effect at the borders with some slight hue shifting - that area isn't quite synthetic, but is instead the place where the oxygen emissions at the core overlap with the hydrogen emissions of the edges. By slightly bumping the green channel and then stretching the hue to push green toward its adjacent colors (yellow and blue), you get a golden color from the edge of the hydrogen.

[impalalord]

Is your PFP an eye or like something in space?? I have been wondering about this for ages

My PFP is a high resolution image of the Helix Nebula!

It’s located in the Aquarius constellation, which coincidentally happens to be my birth sign too!

It’s also called the Eye of God, for pretty obvious reasons

[questioningespecialy]

egg⚽🧠irl [Transfem Meme] [Nonbinary Meme]

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION] Expanding Brain meme with two extra rows of boxes on the bottom. 1st row left: "I just like the outfit." 1st row right: Human skull with small brain. 2nd row left: "Something about her aesthetic is just visually appealing to me." 2nd row right: Human head with regular sized brain that has many lights glowing inside. 3rd row left: "I wanna be her." 3rd row right: Human head with regular sized brain that has many more lights glowing inside with great intensity. 4th row left: "I wish I was her." 4th row right: Human head with regular sized brain that has some lights shooting out past the head and none inside it. 5th row left: "I wish I lived in an LGBTQ+ safe world so I could discover myself sooner and be a weird-ass tomboy who liked girly things." 5th row right: Photo of the Helix Nebula (aka: Eye of God) in outer space. 6th row left: "i wanna be visibly me" 6th row right: The girl Sayori (from the game Doki Doki Literature Club) in her fan-made "Coolyori - Finger Guns Emoji" form pointing two finger guns to the left while wearing a Pale Pink colored short-sleeved shirt, CG Red colored bowtie in her neck-length hair, and two sunglasses with one raised mostly above the other. Behind her are the Chevron Queer Flag's lavender colors split vertically down the middle with Orchid on the left and Twilight Lavender on the right. Entire left side: Boxes have a background of the off-white color Seashell increasing in opacity from 20% (barely visible) in the 2nd box to 100% in the 6th. 3rd to 6th row left: Tall image with 18.6% opacity of

Rainbow Dash (from the series My Little Pony Equestria Girls) in possibly fan-drawn human form with hip-length rainbow colored hair and bangs, fully open Shocking Pink colored eyes, and a large smile posed with her right foot ontop of a Black & White soccer ball while facing the audience and wearing the following athletic wear:

A tall pair of Ocean Boat Blue & White colored boots with slightly taller rainbow colored socks sticking out.

A slightly pleated White colored mini skirt with a wide Sky Magenta colored vertical stripe down the middle and black underskirt shorts sticking out by maybe 4".

An open zippered Ocean Boat Blue colored short-sleeved jacket with a non-folded collar.

A mostly visible White t-shirt with a large image of a cloud unleashing a single thick blue, yellow, and red lightning bolt that's half covered by her folded arms. The left of which bearing an identically colored wristband.

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Context: Found myself experiencing a ton of gender envy 2 days ago while referencing this image of Rainbow Dash for something. Almost got intense. So of course I decided to spend hours making a meme about it. 📝🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♀️

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The eye in the sky is help up by the hand in the sky.

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Worth a look: eyes in the sky, the eye of god, and other vintage all-seeing eyes.

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The spiritual significance of ancient civilization, presenting hand carved 'Eye of Horus' necklace featuring natural moldavite. The necklace is also handmade in silver in bohemian style. For more information, please follow the link. Thank you.

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Eye see into your soul.

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Eye of God

"Planetary scientist and astrophotographer Connor Matherne invested two years and over 100 hours of exposure time to create a stunning image of the Helix Nebula. Also known as the Eye of God, it is one of the closest planetary nebulae to Earth. Sitting at about 650 light-years away from Earth in the Aquarius constellation, this cloud of gas and dust is a sight to behold."

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Lilli Marlit, Leave me alone

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[danskjavlarna]

Separated at Birth?

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Wikipedia : William Preston

“The Eye Of Providence” William Preston

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All-seeing Eye of God / Eye of Providence

Old Believers' icon, ~19th century

this icon first started appearing sometime around the 19th century among the Old Believers exclusively. Russian Orthodox Church's (ROC) official position is a strict denial of its canonicity, so it cannot be seen on the iconostasis of official churches. yet for the Old Believers (Russian Orthodox Old Believing Church or ROOBC) such images of God are common, for they do not contradict their understanding of God. the differences between the ROC and ROOBC include their exegesis, ecclesiastical rites, the sign of the cross, etc., but, probably, the main difference is in their iconography: ROOBC permits the depiction of God the Father and the tetramorph, which is forbidden in the ROC. additionally, the ROOBC icons are much more allegorical than the common Orthodox icons.

ALLEGORIES:

in the centre there is an image of Christ in its Emmanuel The Saviour variant. sometimes He is depicted with his hands in a blessing position, but more often He holds a book, which symbolises Divine Law, and his other hand is showing a chrism sign. His figure radiates light, associated with Divine protection and grace.

He is surrounded by multiple eyes that symbolise the ability of God to watch over all of human's troubles and His direct attention to each and every one of us.

the main motif of the icon is its circularity - a symbol of eternity. the first circle (from the inner circle to the outer) holds Christ in it, the second - the eyes, nose and mouth, the third - the Mother of God. Her hands are in oranta position - a symbol of Her endless prayer for humankind to God.

the outer, final circle depicts God the Father in the Sabaoth image, as an elderly man.

the four rays or circles on the sides hold the Evangelists in them. one might see a classical tetramorph with:

Matthew - the Angel or a human

John - the Eagle

Mark - the Lion

Luke - the Ox

however, more often the depictions of John and Mark shuffle between each other: John is shown as the Lion, and Mark - as the Eagle.

translation of the texts inside the circles (done by yours truly):

IC XC (Jesus Christ) My eyes will be upon the faithful of the land, I will seat them with Me.

'my soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior' (Luke 1:46-56)

MP ΘU - Meter Theou, Mother of God; the Coal of Isaiah manifests the sun from the virgin womb, shining in the dark, to the lost ones prudence and enlightenment giving.

holy, holy, holy Lord Sabaoth, heaven and earth are full

Matthew imaged as the Angel the exegesis messenger

Mark imaged as the Eagle the exegesis exalts to (the sky)

Luke imaged as the Ox the exegesis (brings) to the world

John imaged as the Lion the exegesis (brings) to the grave

st archangel Selaphiel

st Spiridon

another images of the same icon (the text almost does not change from icon to icon)