Discovery of an Amazing Object in the Sky

I was observing on the night of 31st of March this year.

Just after the midnight I chanced upon this amazing discovery.

The night sky was crystal clear. The telescope was pointing towards Virgo, the Virgin.
And this is what I got.

Even though the image was shaken up a bit, the image itself intrigued me.
I therefore took one more image.

I had never seen anything like this before. This object looked exactly like a planetary nebula.
A planetary nebula is an astronomical object consisting of a glowing shell of gas
and plasma formed by certain types of stars at the end of their lives.
There are some very nice examples of this kind exist - but this is unique indeed.

After some image processing this is what I could get out of the image above.

I think this object should should be called appropriately Kiss Nebula.

The details of the nebula are seen
much better in this negative image.

This is the fully processed image of the Kiss Nebula

The technical details

The field of view of the camera frame about 2 minutes of arc (which is about 15th the size of the Moon as seen from the earth. )

The size of the nebula is then about 30 second of arc.

The camera used -  Fast Optical On Line System  ( in short FOOLS camera)

To get the desirable effect 'smooch channel' filter was applied.

This image was made on April 1, at 00:00:00

Hope you did not take me too Alpha Canis Majorisly i.e. Siriusly

(aamean  seriously)



Well - I simply generated some star field  image, got my wife to kiss on sheet of paper that I scanned and simply super imposed
this image over the star field image. 

Now played with the image - to make it blur, shake - etc.