The Dragon's Head Nebula, The Cosmic Reef and friends (Logan Carpenter)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Dorado (Dor) · Contains: HD36277 · HD37552 · NGC 1955 · NGC 1968 · NGC 1974 · NGC 2004 · NGC 2011 · NGC 2014 · NGC 2020 · NGC 2021 · NGC 2030 · NGC 2032 · NGC 2035 · NGC 2040 · NGC 2053

The Dragon's Head Nebula, The Cosmic Reef and friends

Carrying on my journey imaging the many gems of the LMC, this image contains numerous wonderful nebula formations in our largest satellite galaxy.
Roughly equal amounts of time were given to Ha, SII and OIII as they all contained wonderful nebula detail.
NGC2035 is named The Dragon's Head Nebula although I cannot for the life of me see the head of this mythical beast.
The area including NGC2014 and NGC2020 I understand has been named 'The Cosmic Reef' because if its resemblance to the undersea world as captured in a Hubble image.
NGC2014's bubbly surface reminds me somewhat of the Jellyfish nebula.
NGC2020 is a bubble structure blown by stellar winds from the central a Wolf-Rayet star, the colour due to ionized oxygen.

I originally created a more traditional SHO palette (main version) but mousing over the image reveals a more fiery looking version which I quite liked as it created the feel of the intensity of the stellar formation and ionization of gases occurring in this region of the LMC.

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Astrometry.net job	8809747
PixInsight job	26HC8FGOVAGEIA7NNNDEP8VGSIY3V48I
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h31m03s.31
RA (top/left)	05h22m45s.60
RA (top/right)	05h39m15s.40
RA (bottom/right)	05h38m59s.99
RA (bottom/left)	05h23m12s.40

Dec (center)	-67°30′55″.9
Dec (top/left)	-68°00′15″.1
Dec (top/right)	-68°01′05″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	-67°00′00″.0
Dec (bottom/left)	-66°59′17″.6

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