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.
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.
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?
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.
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
Wow, there was some activity here last night. Thanks to all.
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I like your shot of the TV turning off and do you have a blow up of your Military road time lapse shot?
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.
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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.
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.
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based on a comparison with the Skyview image generated at
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!
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
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