Large Magellanic Cloud - NGC 2070

[CoolhandJo]

This is a central part of the LMC focusing on the Tarantula Nebula. It is at a FL of 270mm at F4.5. Askar V 60mm. Its about 26.5 hours with ASI 533 Mono using Antlia 3nm narrowband filters. Ideally I wanted more data (don't we all!) but I think its enough looking at the low noise and considering its FL. Like everyone who images this, its difficult to process as its so diverse, however having 3 channels to paly with helps a lot. I attempted to get the star mass in, and also the larger nebulosity of the region.

normally I would post a pic but because this is at 270mm fl @60mm its not going to do it any justice - so her eis the link to the high res.

https://astrob.in/hux2mf/0/

[TrevorW]

Cool one, nice detail and colour, Paul :)

[CaptainCook]

I'm most amazed about the fact you got 27 hours in only 3 nights!...I only managed 11 hours in 4 nights over that same period (different days though as those specific dates were cloudy here) and was up til 4am to achieve that. How did you beat 7h23m of available darkness (8h30m including twilight)?

[CoolhandJo]

Its about 6 hours per night. The astrobin input I left out the actual days and opted for total session on each filter but the actual time was 6 hours per night per filter to the total.

[CoolhandJo]

thanks Trevor . I learnt that drizzle help with my undersampling but a lot more integration time is required even though its fast F4.5

[Nikolas]

Love the colour palette mate good job

[CoolhandJo]

Thanks Nik. Not quite as resolved as your beautiful rendtion though. I need way more aperature! Lol

[Dave882]

Lovely detail for this focal length. Great wide field!

[strongmanmike]

That's sure one mighty field there Paul :eyepop: Heck, I spent ages surfing all around, so many incredible and cool features to be found eeeeverywhere :thumbsup:...the Pareidolia in me went positively wild :tasdevil: :lol:

I quite like the colour palette too, very nice job :thumbsup:

Mike

[CoolhandJo]

Thanks Dave . I underestimated just how wide it would be a d had to drizzle and double the size to keep the detail



Mike thanks! Lol it's great we have access to this target for so long

[Ryderscope]

A great narrowband rendition of this very busy field Paul. One can get lost just wandering around the screen :thumbsup:

[CoolhandJo]

Thanks! 60mm aperature at 270mm gave me lots of detail but required lots of time. Definitely worth it because the wide field of this region is spectacular