NGC 2070 Tarantula Nebula (in between the clouds)

[Startrek]

At my City suburban location I have a restricted view of the SE to SW due to my 2 storey roof line and huge council tree , therefore I can only capture a few hours or so on this target each night.
The weather over the past month has been cloudy but last week offered 2 relatively clear nights ( some passing cloud around 11.30pm to midnight)
I was lucky enough to capture around 4 hours on the Tarantula over 2 nights although I discarded about 15 subs due to cloud and a huge tree in which one smaller branch just blocks its path.

New Moon period ( start )
Bortle 8 heavy light polluted skies
Sky conditions were generally clear with late passing cloud
Atmospheric conditions quite stable
8” f5 Klaus Helmerich Carbon fibre Newtonian ( built it myself )
Skywatcher EQ6-R pro mount
ZWO2600MM. Cooled to -10C , Offset 50 , Gain 100 ( HCG )
ZWO 7x2 Filter wheel
TS GPU coma corrector
Antlia 2” SHO 3nm filters
Goto and Nav EQMOD and Stellarium
Acquisition APT
PHD2 Multistar Guiding ( 0.45 to 0.55 arc sec )
Ha 52 x 2 min subs
Oiii 35 x 2 min subs
Sii 37 x 2 min subs
Dithered every sub
Full Calibration Suite
40 x Flats for each filter
40 x Flat Darks for each filter
40 x Darks from my Library
Analysed , reviewed , calibrated, stacked and aligned in ASTAP
Post processed in Startools V1.8 using Compose module and mapped SHO

The 2 min subs through my 3nm filters worked really well for such a short integration of only 4 hours

Very happy with the end result in SHO

Astrobin link for full resolution……,

https://www.astrobin.com/dbv2zz/

Attached native version and crop version in 200kb IIS

Thanks for looking
Comments welcome

Martin

[Bodon]

Martin very nice spider there :thumbsup:

[TrevorW]

Yep I like that :)

[Startrek]

Thanks Steve,
Amongst all the line of sight issues I have imaging this target , I was fortunate to have no moon around whilst capturing Oiii data. As you know the moons glare plays havoc with Oiii.
Cheers
Martin

[Startrek]

Thanks Trev,
Yep a quicky but a goody
Martin

[Davidpmcadam]

Very nice Martin. On the south coast the clouds have been ridiculous, either low level or high level.

[Startrek]

Thanks David
Yes it’s been cloudy up here in Sydney over the past few months but you do get the odd clear night or two , you just have to ready for it. My rig is set up semi permanent in Sydney ( on the paved area just outside the pool ) with just a scope cloak tied down over it so I can be imaging within 20mins or so. 6 years ago I use to tear down and rebuild my rig and it drove me crazy. Permanent or semi permanent is the only way to image from home.

Cheers
Martin