AAPOD2 Image Archives
NGC 2030 - The Tarantula Nebula
Image Description and Details : A huge celestial furnace of star production, located outside our galaxy in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Just over 75 hours of integration using narrowband filters were used to create this 2 panel mosaic.
William Optics RedCat51
ZWO ASI294MMPro
Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro
Taken from Perth, Western Australia
Copyright: Daniel Faull
NGC 2030 & Friends
Image Description and Details :
Lying within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to ours around 158,000 light years away in the constellation of Doradus, this rather chaotic but beautiful nebula complex presents an Ha and O3 rich tapestry of colourful nebulae and star clusters. This is a natural colour palette image (I.e. an LRGB image augmented with Ha and OIII narrow band data) comprising 17 hours of data.
FOV: 39.2 x 26.2 arc-minutes @ 0.59 arc-seconds/pixel.
Telescope: Officina Stellare ProRC 360
Camera: SBIG STXL 11002M, AOX and FW-8G
Mount: Paramount ME
Luminance: 12x15 minutes (binned 1x1)Red: 8x15 minutes (binned 1x1) Green: 8x15 minutes (binned 1x1) Blue: 8x15 minutes (binned 1x1) Ha: 10x30 minutes (binned 1x1)O3: 6x30 minutes
Copyright: Marcus Davies