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Large Magellanic Cloud with Narrow Bands (SHO Palette), AstroJC (Jamie Chang)
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Large Magellanic Cloud with Narrow Bands (SHO Palette)

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Large Magellanic Cloud with Narrow Bands (SHO Palette)

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Large Magellanic Cloud with Narrow Bands (SHO Palette)

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This is my first image for this astonishing target in the southern sky, the Large Magellanic Cloud, or so called LMC. I aimed to highlight the clouds within the LMC using narrowband imaging, as they are not very distinct in RGB.

During post-processing, I preserved the RGB information for the galaxy itself and enhanced the narrow bands in SHO palette to emphasize the clouds. It's fascinating to see the how plenty of the clouds in the LMC. I look forward to observing it with my naked eye in the future, as I haven't yet visited the southern hemisphere



Technical Details
  • Date
    • 2023/12/07, 2023/12/09

  • Location
    • El Sauce Observatory, Chile

  • Telescope
    • Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 200MM F/2G ED VR II

  • Camera
    • FLI MicroLine 16200 @ -20°C

  • Mount
    • 10Micron GM 1000 HPS

  • Note
    • Good weather
    • Seeing ~ 2"

Exposures
  • Luminance  
    • 180s x 30 | BIN 1

  • Red
    • 300s x 6   | BIN 1

  • Green
    • 300s x 6   | BIN 1

  • Blue
    • 300s x 6   | BIN 1

    • 300s x 16 | BIN 1

  • OII
    • 300s x 16 | BIN 1

  • SII
    • 300s x 16 | BIN 1

  • Total 420 minutes

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Large Magellanic Cloud with Narrow Bands (SHO Palette), AstroJC (Jamie Chang)