Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Dorado (Dor)  ·  Contains:  30 Dor Cluster  ·  IC 2128  ·  IC 2145  ·  NGC 1809  ·  NGC 1825  ·  NGC 1828  ·  NGC 1829  ·  NGC 1830  ·  NGC 1835  ·  NGC 1836  ·  NGC 1838  ·  NGC 1839  ·  NGC 1842  ·  NGC 1844  ·  NGC 1846  ·  NGC 1847  ·  NGC 1849  ·  NGC 1850  ·  NGC 1852  ·  NGC 1854  ·  NGC 1856  ·  NGC 1858  ·  NGC 1859  ·  NGC 1860  ·  NGC 1862  ·  NGC 1863  ·  NGC 1864  ·  NGC 1865  ·  NGC 1866  ·  NGC 1867  ·  And 164 more.
Tarantula Nebula and Large Magellanic Cloud wide field, Terri
Powered byPixInsight

Tarantula Nebula and Large Magellanic Cloud wide field

Tarantula Nebula and Large Magellanic Cloud wide field, Terri
Powered byPixInsight

Tarantula Nebula and Large Magellanic Cloud wide field

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

A widefield narrowband image containing the Large Magellanic cloud and the Tarantula Nebula as well as numerous other NGC objects.    First mentioned in 964 A.D. and called Al Bakr, "the white ox"  by Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, a Persian astronomer.     Ferdinand Magellan brought this neighbor galaxy into common western knowledge 600 years later in 1519 and the galaxy now bears his name.     The Tarantula nebula is part of the LMC and probably its most interesting object.    The LMC contains as many as 60 globular clusters, 400 planetary nebula and 700 open clusters.    The distance, by Cepheid variable observation is 157,000 light years and is the third closest galaxy to our solar system outside of the Milky Way.     The image is taken at a FOV of 324' and a scale of 4.74"/pixel so fairly under sampled.    The image was taken through a Takahashi FSQ106 at f3.5 with an FLI16803 CCD camera.
While the background and cloud look noisy, it's actually stars that you see.. lots and lots and lots of stars.

Comments

Revisions

  • Tarantula Nebula and Large Magellanic Cloud wide field, Terri
    Original
  • Final
    Tarantula Nebula and Large Magellanic Cloud wide field, Terri
    B

B

Description: Darkened background stars a bit to improve contrast.

Uploaded: ...

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

Tarantula Nebula and Large Magellanic Cloud wide field, Terri