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Cosmic Reef - NGC 2014 & NGC 2020 - ShaRA#2, Antonio Grizzuti
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Cosmic Reef - NGC 2014 & NGC 2020 - ShaRA#2

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Cosmic Reef - NGC 2014 & NGC 2020 - ShaRA#2, Antonio Grizzuti
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Cosmic Reef - NGC 2014 & NGC 2020 - ShaRA#2

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ShaRA Project: second light

What is ShaRA? It’s a new open project called Shared Remote Astrophotography, acronym “ShaRA”, and is based on crowd or group funding for buying imaging time on large telescopes around the world.

The project was born 3 months ago and this is the second target faced by the group. It is a deep view of the Cosmic Reef (NGC2014 in the Large Magellanic Cloud), imaged with the ASA RC1000 in the El Sauce Observatory in Chile.

12 astrophotographers put their resources together to make this possible accessing to the Deep View Project from Chilescope service, namely:
  • Vikas Chander
  • Massimo di Fusco
  • Antonio Grizzuti
  • Rolando Ligustri
  • Gianpaolo Michieletto
  • Gianluigi Pazienza
  • Alessandro Ravagnin (T-Rex)
  • Cristiano Trabuio
  • Emanuele Stival
  • Egidio Vergani

Every participants received a total amount of subframes depending on its economic contribution and processed the images by his-self.

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Cosmic Reef - NGC 2014 & NGC 2020 - ShaRA#2, Antonio Grizzuti