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Tarantula Nebula
Tarantula Nebula

This is a re-process of an earlier submission. I think it's better.

I've been gathering data for this target for about 2 years, yet I have just under 3 hours of usable material. Nevertheless, it seems enough.

The nebula is about 160,00 million light years away - just outside our galaxy in the large Magellanic cloud. I read that if this were as close to us as M42, it would likely cast visible shadows(!) Its also an apparent "hot house" for super-giant stars. This interesting video gives more information and shows it's location. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_WFC3_30_Doradus_Zoom.ogv

This is a wide view of the area I took with a Takahashi Epsilon 180ED (f2.8) in Chile via ITelescope. Its a narrow-band bicolour image incorporating only 2 filters, Ha and Oiii. Thanks for looking!

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Taken on: March 12, 2024
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