Tarantula Nebula NGC2070

[bluescope]

This is my Tarantula from tonight. My neighbour has huge trees which block this, one of my favourite DS objects along with Tucanae 47 so I had to quickly grab this shot before it disappeared for the night. It wasn't even quite dark when I had to shoot ..... I hate their bloody trees .... anybody got a match

prime focus with MPCC - 8" F5 Newt - 350D - 20 sec @ iso 800

NO PROCESSING apart from contrast +5 and 0.3 pixel @ 150% unsharp mask at 900x600 size

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice one Steve, a lovely object captured well.

[Ric]

Great image Steve, theres some nice colour captured in that image.

Cheers

[bluescope]

Thanks guys, hard little bugger to focus on, averted vision on near stars method .... the nebula was just a faint blurr in the frame.