The Cosmic Reef and Friends (Paul Hancock)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Dorado (Dor) · Contains: HD269497 · HD269502 · HD269504 · HD269525 · HD269540 · HD269545 · HD269559 · HD269560 · HD269563 · HD269576 · HD269580 · HD269591 · HD269593 · HD269594 · HD269597 · HD269606 · HD269607 · HD269614 · HD269623 · HD269628 · HD269629 · HD269638 · HD269639 · HD269640 · HD269644 · HD269659 · HD269678 · HD269682 · HD269684 · HD269686 · And 70 more.

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The duo of NGC2014 and NGC2020 (right) form what has been dubbed the Cosmic Reef, due to the shock fronts of NGC2020 having a likeness to coral. NGC2020 is the smaller blue nebula and the bright star within it that you can see is a huge Wolf-Rayet star which has thrown off massive amounts of gas at various stages of its short life, which you can see here as nearly concentric shells.

NGC1968 (center) contains many young star systems and contains the first recorded Herbig-Haro object found outside our galaxy. The HH object is I believe visible in my image, but my resolving power shows it just as a dark structure without any real detail.

The nebula to the left is I believe NGC1934, although I think there are a few NGC and IC numbers associated with it?

I took 90x300s of data last year of this magnificent region of the LMC, last night I decided to grab some more data, I managed 60x300s. My framing was different so I tried Gradient Merge Mosaic, which was fairly painless. Unfortunately the left side of the image didn't have anymore overlap so had to be cropped hard against that nebulosity with no breathing room. I think this grouping is quite nice and suits my focal length perfectly. I might nudge the framing a bit to the "left" for the next lot of data so I can give that nebula some breathing room.

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RA (center)	05h30m38s.77
RA (top/left)	05h23m33s.71
RA (top/right)	05h38m02s.90
RA (bottom/right)	05h37m22s.37
RA (bottom/left)	05h23m36s.36

Dec (center)	-67°18′07″.1
Dec (top/left)	-67°54′41″.1
Dec (top/right)	-67°52′37″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	-66°40′28″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	-66°42′27″.1

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