Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Dorado (Dor)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1966  ·  NGC 2048  ·  NGC 2070  ·  NGC 2077  ·  Tarantula nebula
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The region around the Tarantula nebula, 



    
        

            Rick Stevenson
The region around the Tarantula nebula
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The region around the Tarantula nebula

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
The region around the Tarantula nebula, 



    
        

            Rick Stevenson
The region around the Tarantula nebula
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The region around the Tarantula nebula

Acquisition details

Frames:
B: 128×30(1h 4′)
Chroma Ha 3nm: 238×120(7h 56′)
Chroma Oiii 3nm: 93×120(3h 6′)
G: 139×30(1h 9′ 30″)
R: 143×30(1h 11′ 30″)
Integration:
14h 27′

Basic astrometry details

Astrometry.net job: 2439742

RA center: 05h34m49s.7

DEC center: -69°2121

Pixel scale: 3.149 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 0.858 degrees

Field radius: 1.648 degrees

Resolution: 3000x2280

File size: 5.5 MB

Data source: Backyard

Description

A region of the Large Magellanic including the Tarantula nebula and part of the bar diagonally across the bottom right.

I was surprised how well a very small amount of RGB data came out under very light polluted skies. I was originally intending to do a narrowband image with the RGB data for star colour but a straight RGB image looked pretty good, so I just enhanced it a little with some Ha and Oiii.

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The region around the Tarantula nebula, 



    
        

            Rick Stevenson