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Tarantula Nebula HaSiiOiii (HSO), Göran Nilsson

Tarantula Nebula HaSiiOiii (HSO)

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Tarantula Nebula HaSiiOiii (HSO), Göran Nilsson

Tarantula Nebula HaSiiOiii (HSO)

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The Tarantula Nebula is one of few nebulae in another galaxy that we can get detaild images of. It is situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud of the southern sky. It is so big and bright that that if it were as close to Earth as the Orion Nebula, the Tarantula Nebula would cast visible shadows here.

This is Ha, Sii and Oiii data from Telescope Live at the El Sauce hosting facility at 1500m elevation in Río Hurtado, Coquimbo Region, Chile. Ha is 16 x 5 minm, Sii is 15 x 5 min, and Oiii is 7 x 5 min. Filters are 3nm Astrodon.

I started off with Ha in the red channel, Sii in green, and Oiii in blue, but then tweaked the colours quite a bit in PS towards a more RGB like image.

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Tarantula Nebula HaSiiOiii (HSO), Göran Nilsson