NGC 2030 & Friends

Image Description and Details :

Lying within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to ours around 158,000 light years away in the constellation of Doradus, this rather chaotic but beautiful nebula complex presents an Ha and O3 rich tapestry of colourful nebulae and star clusters.

This is a natural colour palette image (I.e. an LRGB image augmented with Ha and OIII narrow band data) comprising 17 hours of data.
FOV: 39.2 x 26.2 arc-minutes @ 0.59 arc-seconds/pixel.

Telescope: Officina Stellare ProRC 360
Camera: SBIG STXL 11002M, AOX and FW-8G
Mount: Paramount ME
Luminance: 12x15 minutes (binned 1x1)
Red: 8x15 minutes (binned 1x1)
Green: 8x15 minutes (binned 1x1)
Blue: 8x15 minutes (binned 1x1)
Ha: 10x30 minutes (binned 1x1)
O3: 6x30 minutes

Copyright: Marcus Davies