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This image shows multiple bright nebula and star clusters in an area adjacent to the the Tarantula Nebula ( NGC 2070 ) in the nearby irregular galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud ( LMC ). The largest of these are the bright pink nebula in the upper right part of the image ( NGC 2014 ) and the blue nebula in the lower right ( NGC 2030 ).
Details:
Bright Nebulae:
NGC 2014 ( upper right, pink) size 30 x 20 arcmin Mag +8.
NGC 2020 size 2.0 arcmin
NGC 2030 ( lower right, blue ).
NGC 2032 .
NGC 2035 size 3.0 x 3.0 arcmin
NGC 2040 size 3.0 x 3.0 arcmin
Open clusters:
NGC 2002 size 2 arcmin Mag +10.1
NGC 2004 size 2.7 arcmin Mag +9.6
NGC 2006 size 1 arcmin Mag +11.5
NGC 2011 size 1 arcmin Mag +10.6
NGC 2021 size 0.9 arcmin Mag +12.1
NGC 2027 size 0.7 arcmin Mag +11.9
NGC 2034
NGC 2041 size 0.7 arcmin Mag +10.4
Image centre RA 05h 33m 25.583s, Dec -67° 18' 02.586" (nova.astrometry.net)
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 1200mm, f4 )
Corrector: ASA 2" Coma Corrector Quattro 1.175x
Effective Focal Length / Aperture : 1410 mm 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)
Filter: none
HDR combination of four sets of exposures:
9 x 300 sec ISO 200
4 x 120 sec ISO 200
4 x 120 sec ISO 100
4 x 60 sec ISO 100
Pixinsight & Photoshop
29 January 2017
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