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Tarantula Nebula, Jan Scheers
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Image of the Tarantula Nebula, also called NGC 2070 or 30 Doradus, an immense star forming region (H II) in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

This LRGB-image was captured with the Planewave CDK24 telescope and FLI PL09000 camera from Telescope Live in El Sauce Observatory, Chile.

Total exposure time: 290 minutes. LRGB 8:7:7:7 subs of 600s with each filter.

Processing with AstroPixelProcessor, Photoshop CC with AstroPanel V4.2, Astronomy Tools, Topaz Sharpen AI and Denoise Projects 3 plug-ins.

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Tarantula Nebula, Jan Scheers