Tarantula Nebula NGC 2070 - Close up

[PhotonCollector]

Hello all,

Here's a shot I did recently of the Tarantula.

It's a 75-minute exposure (25 x 3-min subs) with my modified 300D @ ISO200 autoguided on my G-11 mounted GSO 12" f/5 'scope.

This image is only the central region of a wider-field image. I cropped the central region of the original image to produce this close up image which is 75% of its original size (well on the link below it is 75%, but the attached image is less than that..).

There is a better look at the image here http://www.skylab.com.au/pmsa/NGC2070.html

seasons greetings
Paul

PS.
Santa came early this year with a brand new William Optics 110mm f/5.95 APO refractor and a 0.8x Field Flattener/reducer. :D

[iceman]

Lovely image Paul, I love the structure and detail in the lower left quadrant.

I've got the same 0.8x reducer, using it with an ED80. It's great!

[2020BC]

Congrats, on the new scope, Paul. Nice, shot of the spider!:thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

very nice image Paul, a heap of detail in that

[Dennis]

Gorgeous star colours - a beautiful image to just get lost in!

Cheers

Dennis

[Garyh]

Lovely spider Paul! lovely colors!! :thumbsup:

Quick send Santa this way while he still has a few more of them in his sack!!! :)
cheers

[Ric]

Top image Paul, there is a lot of depth and detail in that one along with some lovely colour.

Well done

[Alchemy]

almost a three dimensional look too it, which is nice.

the saturation looks a little overdone though, ( hope not to offend)

[tornado33]

Yes well done. Did you have to do the masking technique to preserve detail in the bright parts?
Great star colours too, so much for claims that DSLRs mean whited out stars only :)

[Lee]

Beautiful - I think the colours look great.....

[PhotonCollector]

Thank you for your comments for my Tarantula image.

iceman: Someone else also like the structure you speak of. We thought it looked like a hole in the nebula being blown by stellar winds ?

The new 2" APO field flattener/ certainly looks good, do your stars come out perfect near the corners ?

Dennis: I agree, I spent quite sometime just wandering through the hi-res image and saw many little things I not noticed before (like the almost perfectly coloured yellow star - right in the middle of that small compact cluster at lower left of centre.

Alchemy: yes it could be a bit over saturated. I find this sometimes is relevant to which monitor you a using. I work in an IT Department where we have over 400 users and I can certainly say no one image looks the same on any two monitors, on some monitors the colours seem poor and other monitors the colours seem rich and vibrant. On some monitors the image appears too bright and others it appears too dull. :shrug:

Garyh: I did mention to Santa there would be plenty of others interested in such a 'scope. He said ssshhhh, there only a brand new model and most others still don't know about it.

tornado33: Yes Scott, certainly had to mask the core of the image - I used photoshop to do that.

Lee: I never knew you were a Novocastrian. I checked out your web site: nice start!

Thanks all !
:)

[ballaratdragons]

Gee that's a nice image, Paul.

Damn hard to get Tarantula to look good! You have done well :thumbsup: