The Cosmic Reef (vikas chander)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Dorado (Dor) · Contains: HD269698 · HD269702 · HD269713 · HD269714 · HD269717 · HD269723 · HD269724 · HD269726 · HD269733 · NGC 2011 · NGC 2014 · NGC 2020

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The Cosmic Reef

Link: www.vikaschander.com

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The Cosmic Reef

Link: www.vikaschander.com

The Cosmic Reef

This image features the giant red nebula NGC 2014 and its blue neighbour NGC 2020 which together form part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 163 000 light-years away. The region is a rich tapestry of blazing star birth as massive stars shape their stellar birthplace. NGC 2014 glows red due to the presence of hydrogen and nitrogen while the smoke ring like structure of NGC 2020 shines distinctively blue created by radiation from a hot Wolf-Rayet star, this time by ionizing oxygen instead of hydrogen. Star clusters abound in the region and along with the billowing colourful gas clouds, the area almost resembles an undersea world and earns it the moniker – The Cosmic Reef ……

The image was a collaboration between a group of astrophotographers. We call ourselves SHARA and basically crowdfund resources to buy imaging time on telescopes around the world. More can be read here -[url=http:// https://astrotrex.wordpress.com/shara-shared-remote-astrophotography/]SHARA[/url]

Ha = 19 x 10m
Oiii = 22 x 10m
RGB = 7 x 30s each for stars
Total integration = 8h22m
Software = PixInsight

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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h32m38s.544
RA (top/left)	05h30m24s.734
RA (top/right)	05h33m03s.358
RA (bottom/right)	05h34m51s.778
RA (bottom/left)	05h32m14s.480

Dec (center)	-67°37′58″.89
Dec (top/left)	-67°40′10″.62
Dec (top/right)	-67°50′40″.21
Dec (bottom/right)	-67°35′40″.94
Dec (bottom/left)	-67°25′18″.46

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