Astroquiz - Part Deux

Hello everybody! Celebrating the 10th anniversary of my Astronomy Page which was first put on the web on April 1st, 1996 I would like to invite you to take part in the 2nd Big Den's Astronomy Quiz.

Key in the sky?


The task: to identify this asterism in the sky
The goal: to send me the celestial coordinates of the image center with an arcminute accuracy
The winner: the first one to send me the correct position to 4s in Right Ascension and 1' in Declination (Epoch 2000.0)
The rules: no more than 5 attempts per person (after all, there's only 148.5 Mln square arc minutes on the sky - less than users on the web!)
The hints: I will not tell you neither the image scale (it's self evident for an experienced eye) nor the orientation nor the stars' magnitudes and not even the constellation or the celestial hemisphere!
The prizes: the winner will get the signed prints of my 10-years old photo of Comet Hale-Bopp and unique picture of Iridium flare between Jupiter and Saturn back in 2000 plus postcards from Russia with love views of Moscow.
Special note: I would like to know how the hell you do it?!?!? I will ask the winner to tell me what software you have used for identifying the star fields like this so that I'd be able to do it myself later. Thank you in advance!

Bonus!

The task is really difficult for most of you, but it's April Fools today after all, so I want you to have fun anyways. Please send me the associations you got from the image above, even the weirdest ones! Does it remind you an umbrella? A mushroom? Donald Duck's leg? :-) McDonald's logo? ;-) Moscow metro sign? The best image caption(s) will be published here together with the names of persons who sent them!

Nice try!

NEW!!! Derek C Breit wrote:

Enjoy!!!

Denis Denisenko denis@hea.iki.rssi.ru

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Last updated: Apr. 2nd, 2006 21:00+0400
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