andyc
06-02-2016, 10:22 PM
This lovely area of the Large Magellanic Cloud contains a collection of colourful nebulae and hot young blue open star clusters. It's always been a favourite when I've done visual observing, nice to take a photo of it. The brightest nebula is NGC2032, there's the smoky ring of NGC2020, a very dense cluster NGC2004, lots of other clusters and nebulae, and even a background galaxy or two! One quite bright galaxy there too near NGC2004.
15 x 5 minutes, EOS 60D on 200mm f/5 Newtonian, HEQ5Pro mount, stacked and processed in PixInsight. With a good weather forecast, I might add to this in the next week or so. The larger versions are good for much better detail than the small views here, near 100% resolution for the subsets, 50% for the full frame.
Larger view of the NGC2004, 2020 and 2032 here (http://www.pbase.com/andycasely/image/162492314/original).
Larger view of the full frame (50%) here (http://www.pbase.com/andycasely/image/162492317/original).
Larger view of NGC1974 here (http://www.pbase.com/andycasely/image/162503141/original).
NGC2020 and 2032 complexes again here (http://www.pbase.com/andycasely/image/162492530/original).
15 x 5 minutes, EOS 60D on 200mm f/5 Newtonian, HEQ5Pro mount, stacked and processed in PixInsight. With a good weather forecast, I might add to this in the next week or so. The larger versions are good for much better detail than the small views here, near 100% resolution for the subsets, 50% for the full frame.
Larger view of the NGC2004, 2020 and 2032 here (http://www.pbase.com/andycasely/image/162492314/original).
Larger view of the full frame (50%) here (http://www.pbase.com/andycasely/image/162492317/original).
Larger view of NGC1974 here (http://www.pbase.com/andycasely/image/162503141/original).
NGC2020 and 2032 complexes again here (http://www.pbase.com/andycasely/image/162492530/original).