Tarantula Nebula

[Eden]

After weeks of endless cloud, Melbourne finally came good with the weather last night. With the ambient temperature dropping below zero and ice eventually forming on my laptop screen I went ahead undeterred. :-)

I decided it was time to pay old 30 Doradus a visit, having only attempted briefly to capture this target some time ago with lackluster results. Coming away with 25 x 5 minute subs, I expect that this data will undergo a few revisions yet but overall I am fairly happy with what I managed to achieve with my equipment.

Nothing done with the data apart from stack and stretch.

Full sized image is here:
http://www.astrobin.com/111054/

Thanks for taking a look!

[RickS]

Colours are a bit muted but a very respectable result!

[Eden]

Thanks Rick -- yes, they're definitely muted...I went back and er, took a proper look at the processing ;-)