A two panel mosaic of the Tarantula Nebula. The image I took last year was a single panel and excluded most part of part of the nebula.
Looking at other images here on AB there should be other interesting objects further to the right and to the top.
Panel 1 (Upper): SII: 10.0 hrs, H_Alpha: 10.8 hrs, OIII: 10.0 hrs
Panel 2 (Lower): SII: 10.0 hrs H_Alpha: 10.1 hrs OIII: 9.3 hrs
Total: ~60hrs
Description from
ESA:
The Tarantula Nebula is 170 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in the southern sky and is clearly visible to the naked eye as a large milky patch. Astronomers believe that this smallish, irregular galaxy is currently going through a violent period in its life cycle.
It is orbiting the Milky Way and has had several close encounters with it. It is believed that the interaction with the Milky Way has caused an episode of energetic star formation – part of which is visible as the Tarantula Nebula.
The Tarantula is the largest stellar nursery we know in the local Universe. In fact if this enormous complex of stars, gas and dust were at the distance of the Orion Nebula it would be visible during the day and cover a quarter of the sky.
There's this bright red object, mainly emitting in Sii, at the bottom of the image that I wasn't able to identify, it's not in the NGC, Sharpless nor RCW catalog.
If anyone know what is it please let me know. From its shape it could be some kind of explosion but Sii??
EDIT:
@Ped and
@Astrodatos.blog identified the object on the SIMBAD database. Here's an interesting description from
NoirLab: "The peanut-shaped nebula appears to be a single object, but the latest research indicates that it is really comprised of two distinct gas and dust clouds formed by different types of supernova explosions."
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