The Tarantula Nebula (Debra Ceravolo)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Dorado (Dor) · Contains: 30 Dor Cluster · NGC 2042 · NGC 2044 · NGC 2060 · NGC 2069 · NGC 2070 · NGC 2092 · Tarantula Nebula

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The Tarantula Nebula

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The Tarantula Nebula

Sometimes we can photograph a splashy active star forming region in our Milky Way galaxy, like the famous Orion Nebula, but this beautiful stellar nursery is not even in our galaxy. It resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy outside of our own. It is so big and bright that if it were inside our galaxy, where the Orion Nebula is, it would be visible in the daytime and cast shadows on the ground at night! It’s the largest star forming region in our local universe. You must be in the southern hemisphere to see this and Peter and I were on our second trip to Chile when we captured it. Funny thing about the imaging was there were constant tremors happening and Peter had to do some high-speed guiding to get a clean image. The seeing would have been great if not for the tremors. He used his 280mm prototype astrograph at f/5 with an SBIG ST-10 CCD camera. We only ended up with about 3 hours of exposure time but I was able to bring out a lot of detail using the latest and greatest processing tools. Filters used were LRGB and Ha.

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