The Tarantula and Ghost Head Nebulae

[Boren]

Hi guys,

It's now 2.5 years since this image was taken, during our first travel to the edge of the Kalahari desert, Namibia.
There are more than 100 imaging hours waiting to be processed from that spot, which were shot over the last few years.

The last one posted here (I think) was the Carina Nebula, full frame, which was published for the Readers Gallery on both S&T, October this year: http://www.pbase.com/boren/image/153112832/original
and Astronomy Magazine, on the December issue: http://www.pbase.com/boren/image/153513193/original.

Anyways, this particular data was held on my hard drive for 2.5 years, and I had consistently evaded to process it, as I had a reasonably good Ha signal, but very little color data.
However, I haven't been able to image the region during our 2012 and 2013 travels, which got me to eventually succumb to the Great Spider's temptation :-)

The result is here:
http://www.pbase.com/boren/image/153664287/original

I hope you like it, and any comments are, as always, very welcome.

Cheers,
Harel

[Sam]

That's a very nice image with some lovely structure visible.

[sologuitarist61]

Stunning images with good colour and clarity!