Tarantula in LRGB and Ha

[Chris85 (Chris)]

Hi all,

Here's 2 versions of Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070), in LRGB and Ha, that were taken on my first ever 'dark site' excursion. I chose this target in particular because it's an object which I never get to see from my usual spot out on the back lawn. Would really have loved to get more data on both to help smooth them out, but I had to cut everything short to try beat the encroaching clouds! Also when I finally upgrade to PixInsight I'll revisit this and try include some of the Ha data into the LRGB, for at the moment I can't do it with Maxim or Nebulosity ( that I can see).

LRGB details;
L = 12 x 2min (1x1)
RGB = 5 x 2min (2x2) for each filter

Ha is 11 x 5min

GSO RC 6", Atik 383L on Az EQ6, captured with SGP with processing in Maxim and Nebulosity 3.

Larger version can be found here http://www.astrobin.com/138827/ for LRGB and here for http://www.astrobin.com/138829/ H-Alpha

I've added a pic of my rig because I know how much people love a bit of scope porn

Cheers and thanks for looking!
Chris

[Amaranthus (Barry)]

Very nice Chris, the gas tangles are clear and contrasty.

[jsmoraes (Jorge)]

Nice photo and good capture ! Very sharp with many details. Tarantula is very complex to capture because it has many details with different luminosity.
I think that the brown color of clouds can be more red, since this is the color of emission.
The stars have good shape and colors.

I am returning to my work with SMC and LMC. Where I try to shot the majority of objects inside these two galaxies. Because of the position, at south hemisphere, we have few photos of the objects inside them.

Both galaxies have an intriguing relation between themselves and with our Milk Way. I have some curious infomations that I could found in internet at http://jsmastronomy.30143.n7.nabble....oud-td233.html for SMC and http://jsmastronomy.30143.n7.nabble....oud-td232.html for LMC

I will try to improve those works by adding more informations and photos.

[Chris85 (Chris)]

Originally Posted by Amaranthus

Very nice Chris, the gas tangles are clear and contrasty.

Thanks, Barry, I'm glad you liked it

Originally Posted by jsmoraes

Nice photo and good capture ! Very sharp with many details. Tarantula is very complex to capture because it has many details with different luminosity.
I think that the brown color of clouds can be more red, since this is the color of emission.
The stars have good shape and colors.

Cheers for the tip! I'll have a go tonight and try bringing more red out :-)
Also thanks for those links, some very interesting info regarding those galaxies. I'll definitely by trying to head out to explore them in more detail

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice work, Chris!

[rcheshire (Rowland)]

Yes. Very nice work