Tarantula Nebula

[Atmos]

Captured around the New Year, this is a 2 panel mosaic of NGC 2070 taken from the heavily light polluted back yard. Although it’s a mosaic there is some 50% overlap. It was also unintentional! Although it’s turned out well framing wise, it was actually a pointing error before and after the meridian flip.

Shooting unfiltered with a OSC from the light polluted burbs I didn’t have high extraction of showing much in the way of nebulosity but I’m actually quite surprised. I mostly wanted to go after the stars but there is a nice amount of Ha that’s showing.

Link to High Res (https://www.astrobin.com/full/q11hxh/0/)

175x60s
Mewlon 250
ASI094

[Geoff45]

Very good Colin. Stars are tack sharp. Nice vibrant colour.
Sometimes errors turn out for the best. I have done that more than once.

[JA]

Sweet colours Colin:thumbsup:

Best
JA

[multiweb]

Very nice! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Yeah it's a bright enough one. Always good value.

[gregbradley]

Ooh I like that! Deep colours and good detail.

Mewlon eh? You don't see many images from a Mewlon but Tak brought out a corrector for it which must make all the difference.

Greg.

[Atmos]

Thanks Geoff, it was a lucky “error”. Captured a bit of time correctly centred but after meridian it didn’t centre correctly afterwards but it helped bring in SN1987A :)



Thanks JA!



Thanks Marc! Bright objects are good for suburban imaging :thumbsup:



Thanks Greg :)
You’re right though, there isn’t a lot of images out there from Mewlons. A lot of people do buy them specifically for visual purposes though, which I kinda did but decided to install the corrector for higher image scales.

[Decimus]

Fantastic image, Colin. You managed the dynamic range well as the core of the Tarantula is so much brighter than the rest of the nebula. Nice colours, too!:eyepop: