Deep into 30 Doredus (dsoscope)

Deep into 30 Doredus

With windless guiding and 41 dithered frames to choose from, I was anticipating a good result. I have had good results with Startools processing and this was good data to start with. I was again using the software binning that Startools offers to increase S/N and more accurate color. The binning effectively creates super pixels from each RGGB group from the sensor. The result was lots more fine and soft detail which was missing on my last Tarantula image which was not binned. More detail and with a far less overall pixel count is a bit counter intuitive, but it is there.

The Tarantula Nebula is a gigantic star forming region 160,000 light years away residing in the LMC, a companion galaxy to the Milky Way. Despite the enormous distance involved it is still quite a large object on my APSC sensor. It has an unusually high O III emission for a stellar nursery and also a lower Ha than expected. Certainly a turbulent region and a rewarding target to image!

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Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

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