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Tarantula Nebula, Ed Dixon
Tarantula Nebula
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Tarantula Nebula

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Tarantula Nebula, Ed Dixon
Tarantula Nebula
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Tarantula Nebula

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Initial image of the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus) is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.  Taken the week of 11/16/21 at the Siding Spring observatory part of the iTelescope facility in Coonabarabran, New South Wales.  Taken with a Planewave 20’’ 500mm telescope and  FLI-PL6303E camera.  Image is from 100 minutes of RGB data.  An additional 3 hours of narrowband data remains to be processed.  Processed with Pixinsight and Apple edit software.  A work still in progress.

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Tarantula Nebula, Ed Dixon