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NGC2070 and LMC

Image taken Clayton Bay, South Australia

Equipment - Takahashi TSA102S, reducer with QSI583WSG

Guiding - Star Shoot Autoguider off axis with Paramount PME mount.

HaRGB 60 30 15 15

Darks, flats and biases applied

Processed in CCD stack and Photoshop CS3

Object - Located in the constellation of Dorado and physcially part of the Large Magellanic Cloud at a distance of 160,000 light years. The LMC has many smaller knots of gas this one large star forming region known as the Tarantula Nebula.