Nebulae
NGC 2070 and Tarantula Nebula
The NGC 2070 star cluster and associated nebula is not in our galaxy, but the satellite Large Magellanic Cloud. It is around 160,000 lightyears distant and almost 2000 lightyears across, dwarfing the Orion Nebula in our own galaxy.
Amazingly, if the Tarantula Nebula was as close as the Orion Nebula, it would cover over 45 degrees of sky and be bright enough to cast shadows.
This image is the result of almost 3h of remote LRHaGB data capture, by an FLI Proline 16803 camera on a 17-inch Planewave CDK reflector, from New South Wales in November 2020.
Date: 08/11/2020
Photographer: Graham Wilcock
