Nebula in the LMC

[EddieT]

We got some clear sky on Wednesday night so I decided to start my next long-term project. A deep and wide mosaic of the LMC.

There are some fantastic scenes within the LMC, so many nebula, globulars, and other clusters, it's an amazing place well deserving of an in-depth expose, but it's going to take several months or more to finish, so I thought I'd post the more interesting bits as I go.

This one is a very interesting group of nebula just West of center in the LMC, I'm still looking for accurate references, but I *think* this is NGC1910 on the left and NGC1881/72 on the right. These objects are in the right place, but described as open clusters in TheSky.

[iceman]

oh my that's incredible.. never seen anything like that before.

Are you taking these in h-a?

Andrew Murrell might know what they are, i'll see if I can point him here.

I can't wait to see the result of this project.

[EddieT]

Thanks Mike,

Yes this is 2-hours of Ha and an hour of RGB. 5 hours so far, but it's not finished. I plan to go deeper, probably double the current exposure times, and this one area is about 1/12th of the final image. 6-months is a conservative estimate !

I'd appreciate any help I can get in identifying these areas. Like much of the nebula down south, there are far too few references.

[h0ughy]

Eddie that is fantastic. I am sure that a few "experts" will shortly have everything named and numbered for you.

[EddieT]

Thanks Houghy, If we cant find any references it might be time to create or own :)

[davidpretorius]

lovely, simply lovely!

[[1ponders]]

If that's just the start Eddie, I can see another "David Malin" coming your way :clap::clap::clap:

[beren]

:thumbsup: top stuff

[netwolf]

top shot.. or shots. You also have a very informative website giving hope to us begineers. I like your shot of the TV turning off and do you have a blow up of your Military road time lapse shot?

[ving]

they would be the famous "s" and "number 2" nebulas... :confused:

great stuff eddie :)

[Rodstar]

Eddie, what's the plan in terms of the finished product? I for one would pay for a merged detailed image of the LMC. I wonder if you could get such a thing printed as a high quality coloured poster in a limited run. Maybe Silvinator could provide some input on that? Like the others who have posted, I am really interested to see how your project goes.

[seeker372011]

Eddie:

based on a comparison with the Skyview image generated at

http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/skvjava11.pl

NGC 1910 it certainly is. However, this object seems to be variously referred to as an open cluster or as a "star cloud" ..the extended nebulosity you have captured doesnt seem to be mentioned anywhere.

This is a wonderful project, look forward to seeing the final outcome

[atalas]

:jawdrop: :jawdrop





Louie :thumbsup:

[iceman]

Rod, I'm sure Eddie's plan will be to sell the image on print. You can already buy his amazing work, printed and framed. Just check out his website.

And I agree it will be a stunning mosaic, something I'd definitely consider purchasing.

[EddieT]

Wow, there was some activity here last night. Thanks to all.

Thanks Netwolf, I still have the originals and negatives and I did have Military road blown up to poster size 20-odd years ago. It's an amazing shot when you delve into it. One day I will scan it and reprint it digitally.

Rod, I might go for a run of posters, I've been looking into the costs for another project and it's doable. All my photos are available as high-quality photographic prints though. I print them myself on-demand making the one-off costs very low compared to posters and the quality much higher, using pigment ink on heavy archival photographic paper.
Thanks Seeker, that's the right area and about what I have found as well. If the nebula do exist in any catalogues, they would likely be Sharpless or RCW. I'll keep looking!

[elusiver]

fantastic shots eddie!

el :)

[tornado33]

Howdy
Tis a very deep shot indeed.
Star Atlas Pro has come up with these objects in that frame NGC 1872
pB, R, gbM, 1st of group
CLUSTER ASSOC. WITH NEBULA
NGC 1881
vF, ** p
CLUSTER ASSOC. WITH NEBULA
NGC 1880
CLUSTER ASSOC. WITH NEBULA
4th of group in Cl
NGC 1874
CLUSTER ASSOC. WITH NEBULA
neb and Cl, biN
NGC 1876
CLUSTER ASSOC. WITH NEBULA
pB, iR, biN, 2nd in group
NGC 1877
CLUSTER ASSOC. WITH NEBULA
vF, 3rd of group in Cl
Hope it may be of help.
Scott

[EddieT]

Aha thanks Scott! TheSky does list the clusters but doesn't associate them with the nebula.

I won a copy of Star Atlas Pro some time ago, might be time to have another look at it.

Thanks!

[Striker]

Brilliant Eddie...your one very patient astronomer...go the Queenslanders.

[cventer]

Eddie,

What printer and what type of ink do you use to print your images ?

Best Regards
Chris Venter

[EddieT]

Thanks Tony ! But I consider myself more of an Earthling than a Queenslander. Go the humans :)

[EddieT]

Hi Chris,
The printer is an Epson 4000. It's a professional A2 printer but can print photographs any size from 420mm wide up to 30 metres long.

http://www.epson.com.au/products/largeformat/styluspro4000.asp

I use Epson UltraChrome ink and Epson premium gloss 250gsm photo paper for my prints.

I have a full professional digital printing system here with calibrated monitors and profiled printers to ensure that the prints are the same as they were processed to be on-screen.