NGC2070, The Tarantula (Andrew Murrell)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Dorado (Dor) · Contains: 30 Dor Cluster · NGC 2015 · NGC 2042 · NGC 2044 · NGC 2048 · NGC 2050 · NGC 2052 · NGC 2055 · NGC 2060 · NGC 2069 · NGC 2070 · NGC 2074 · NGC 2081 · NGC 2091 · NGC 2092 · NGC 2093 · NGC 2094 · NGC 2100 · NGC 2108 · Tarantula Nebula

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NGC2070, The Tarantula

All new telescopes have to battle the cloud gods. In the case of the Skywatcher 12" Quattro 300P, it has been fighting a losing battle for nearly a month. The evening of the 10th November we finally had a break in the clouds and I decided to try the scope on the Tarantula. It was Friday night so I had to go to Karaoke first but I arrived home at 10 pm and set up. The ASAIR Plus was set to do 100 subs of 3 minutes each followed by the darks and the Bias. By 11 I was in bed and watching the images on my tablet interface. I woke early as I shoot Sunrise everyday and discovered that at some point during the night, the scope lost the battle yet again and the clouds moved in. All up i got 42 light frames, a little over 2 hours byut the results are everything I expected.

ZWO ASI 2600MC PRO
Beginners AP
ZWO ASIAIR PRO USERS
Southern Hemisphere Astro
Objects of the South - negative declination only
Narrowband imaging
Suburban Astrophotography

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