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The Large Magellanic Cloud in HARGB (again), Ian Parr
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The Large Magellanic Cloud in HARGB (again)

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The Large Magellanic Cloud in HARGB (again), Ian Parr
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The Large Magellanic Cloud in HARGB (again)

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I guess that in  the end the Pixinsight scripts and tools are getting so good that the only thing that matters is personal taste and how much data you can aquire.
This is a total hobby for the obsessives out there. You start small in inches with a few dollars, maybe laying on your back with a pair of binoculars gazing up in wonder thinking I wish I could take a picture of THAT!,  and end up miles away and much, much poorer (but happy :-).

I was quite happy with the purples yesterday. Today I thought may be I should do better with the same data or, if not necessarily better, then different.
Yesterday Andy Warhol, tomorrow maybe J.W.M. Turner, and the next day Caravaggio (I draw the line at Jackson Pollack!).  It never ends. Better cameras, bigger light buckets and more perfect little refractors, better mounts (how good are hamonic drives now!) and that's before before you end up needing ever faster and faster computers with more and more ram, faster and faster CPU's and GPU's, faster and faster  solid state  drives ...  Never boring. Could be worse. At least I don't blow it at a casino and it certainly helps to pass the time!

Clouds are back but I can't complain. 20 years ago the clouds bottoms at night were black and we had a reasonable 3 or so clear nights a week. Now maybe I get good 2 or 3 clear nights a month .
I would have to a drive a longgg way to get black bottom clouds. Clouds may get in the way but the seeing around them can be remarkable! 

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a spiral satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around 163,000 light-years, the LMC is the second or third closest galaxy to the Milky Way and is about 32,200 light-years across.  It straddles the constellations Dorado and Mensa with an apparent length of about 10 degrees to the naked eye, 20 times the Moon's diameter.
It is quite a treat visually as well as through binoculars and telescopes both large and small. The Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070) top left is a large HII region in the south-east corner  of Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and is the  most active starburst region known in the Local Group of galaxies. It is simply stunning particulary large scopes with or without filters and OIII works a treat.

There is a lot more to the LMC  than this but the Tarantula is the best and brightest of a truly stunning field.

If I get some more clear skies around this new moon I will add more panels for a mosaic.

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The Large Magellanic Cloud in HARGB (again), Ian Parr