Zoomed-in image of the Cyg X-1 bow shock as observed by MeerKAT (left and middle panel) and by WSRT (G05; right panel). Left panel: Image of Cyg X-1 and the bow shock. The purple arrow represents the direction of the hard state jet of Cyg X-1 as resolved by Stirling et al. (2001). Middle panel: L-band MeerKAT image of the bow shock overlaid with orange contours to show the significant emission region in the bow shock. The contours start at a 2σ level and increase in steps of σ, where σ is the rms. Right panel: Bow shock contours mapped using MeerKAT L-band data overlaid onto the WSRT radio map of the bow shock in G05 to compare the bow shock over a time span of ≈15 years.