NGC 2014, NGC 2020, NGC 2032 & NGC 2035 ( Dragon's Head nebula - part of N59 Complex ) in the Large Magellanic Cloud ( LMC ) not far from the Tarantula Nebula:
Full size image:
http://https://www.flickr.com/photos...posted-public/
Details:
Bright Nebulae:
NGC 2014 ( upper right, pink) size 30 x 20 arcmin Mag +8
NGC 2020 size 2.0 arcmin ( blue-green oval nebula )
NGC 2030
N59 Complex:
- NGC 2029
- NGC 2032 ( Dragon's Head Nebula - blue centre bottom )
- NGC 2035 size 3.0 x 3.0 arcmin
- NGC 2040 size 3.0 x 3.0 arcmin
Open clusters:
NGC 2004 size 2.7 arcmin Mag +9.6
NGC 2011 size 1 arcmin Mag +10.6
NGC 2021 size 0.9 arcmin Mag +12.1
Image centre RA 05h 33m 32.362s, Dec -67° 32' 18.145" (nova.astrometry.net)
Orientation: up is west, right is South
Field of view (arcmin): 58.8 x 39.2
Scale (full size image) 0.585 arcsec/pixel
Telescope: Orion Optics CT12 Newtonian ( mirror 300mm, fl 120mm, f4 ).
Corrector: ASA 2" Coma Corrector Quattro 1.175x.
Effective Focal Length / Aperture : 1410mm f4.7
Mount: Skywatcher AZ Eq6 GT
Guiding: TSOAG9 Off-Axis-Guider, Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2, PHD2
Camera: Nikon D5300 (unmodified) (sensor 23.5 x 15.6mm, 6016x4016 3.9um pixels)
Format: 14bit NEF
Noise reduction: off
Filter: none
HDR combination of seven sets of exposures (20 & 22 Feb 2017):
58 x 240 sec ISO 800
8 x 120 sec ISO 800
8 x 60 sec ISO 800
8 x 30 sec ISO 800
8 x 14 sec ISO 800
8 x 7 sec ISO 800
8 x 3 sec ISO 800
Blue Mountains, NSW
Pixinsight: 26 Feb 2017
