Tarántula Nebula from Buenos Aires

[Javier]

Hi guys, I wanted to share with you this image of the spider of the southern skies. Of course the image is very poor due to my limited tecnique and equipment, but this is what I can do so far.

It was taken from Cañuelas, a dark site 100 km away from Buenos Aires City.

10 x 30" lights, darks and bias. S.W. 6" reflector in Eq3 mount and Canon 300 D in prime focus.

The cyan color is quite weird, don`t know really why is that. Looking forward to modified my camera to get more hydrogen.

Regards,

Javier

[Darth Takahashi]

Nice capture, everything will drop in to place given time. Are you using a CLS sky pollution filter? If so that may account for the cyan colour cast which can be corrected in Photoshop.

Neil

[johnh]

Not seen Tarantula in a wide field and it looks good, when modification is done you will get a big lift in colour and signal. John.

[Taff]

Hi' That's a nice capture.Nice to see pictures on the other side of the world.Mark

[Javier]

Thanks Neil, John and Mark for your kind words.

I´m not using any filter yet. It´s common to get some cyan or green in this particular nebula with unmodded DSRL, don´t know why

I want to try again with longer exposures.

Regards,

Javier.