An Early Spider

[Nikolas]

NGC 2070 The Tarantula Nebula
Over 20 hours of data taken over several nights and over a year of old and new data.
Combination of 180, 300 and 600 second subs then combined in Astropixel processor.
RGB and Ha extracted and used as a luminance layer.
One shot colour ZWO 294mc pro and the Optolong L Extreme.
​​​​​​​TSOptics 130mm with the riccardi 0.75 reducer, ASIAIR
As the season progresses I will be adding more and more data and see what eventuates.
ASTROBIN (https://www.astrobin.com/rtwtgq/)

[Dave882]

Wow that’s beautiful! Really skilful processing. Did you find the Ha data made a good difference to the final image? I thought being such an Oiii rich target you could have used that too..? Will you continue adding more data to the same fov or expand into a mosaic now?

[Nikolas]

Hi Dave, That's the ideaI could have added O3 ande made an HaOO recombination but the amount of time it took to process just the Ha and RGB with over 200 images I got lazy. Remember I only use a one shot colour camera so the L-Extreme does all the work in regards to the filtring.
When I get more data later on I'll revisit and sort it all out.
Cheers

[Nikolas]

I'll be adding some widefield data tonight and add it to this version and see what entails.

[petershah]

A beautiful shot....I love this region, one day I hope to get a chance to image it.

[Nikolas]

Cheers
See if you can hire one of the remote scopes down south and have a go

[AstroViking]

As the French would (phonetically) say, "Zut Alores!".

That's one impressive image, Nik. Hat's off to you!

Cheers,
V

[Crater101]

Very nicely done indeed!

[Nikolas]

Thanks mate Cheers







cheers

[Dilsh]

Amazing shot. All those hours have really paid off. Love the true color. I have only been able to get any detail with NB. Thanks for sharing!

[Ryderscope]

A picturesque maze of nebulosity and spidery tendrils. Very nice work Nik :thumbsup:

[Stephane]

Nik, so much detail in this image. Very nicely processed too.

Stephane