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NGC2070 - Tarantula Nebula, Robin Lim

NGC2070 - Tarantula Nebula

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NGC2070 - Tarantula Nebula, Robin Lim

NGC2070 - Tarantula Nebula

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NGC2070 - Tarantula Nebula

This is one of a big and interesting target out of the Southern Sky, with a bright core and dim web filaments and massive starfield spanned across that enough to fill up a full frame sensor shooting at 910mm focal length.

Total of 46.5 hours of data taken using 2 telescopes, one for SHO and another one for LRGB data, processed as LRGBSHO.

Telescope 1: iStar-Optical 140mm f6.5, QHY600M camera and Chroma 3nm narrowband filters

Frames taken: 

Ha: 60x600
Oiii: 32x600
Sii: 39x600

Telescope 2: William Optics GT102, QHY268M camera and Antlia LRGB filters

Frames taken:

L: 25x600
R: 59x600
G: 33x600
B: 31x600

Shot using Astro Photography Tools, stacked using Astro Pixel Processor and final editing using Adobe Photoshop

Telescopes hosted at Heaven’s mirror observatory, Yass NSW, Australia

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NGC2070 - Tarantula Nebula, Robin Lim