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NGC 2014/NGC 2020 in SHO with RGB stars, gmadkat
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NGC 2014/NGC 2020 in SHO with RGB stars

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NGC 2014/NGC 2020 in SHO with RGB stars, gmadkat
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NGC 2014/NGC 2020 in SHO with RGB stars

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This is such an utterly fascinating region of the Large Magellanic Cloud! it is sad that it is not visible from the northern hemisphere, so I am very thankful for this amazing data from our shared remote observatory in Chile. 

NGC 2014 the Giant Red Nebula and NGC 2020 the bright smaller blue nebula are in an HII Region with NGC 2020 surrounding the Giant Wolf-Rayet star BAT99-59. They are located in the Large Magellanic Cloud approximately 163,000 light years away, are part of a vast star-forming region.The sparkling centerpiece of NGC 2014 is a grouping of bright, hefty stars, each 10 to 20 times more massive than our Sun.

Imaged in HOO and RGB on the RiDK 400 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile
Image data and preprocessing: Mike Selby at throughlightandtime.com

I processed this by combining SHO and used RGB only for star color, extracted the Lum and used deconvolution to bring out fine details in the nebulosity.

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