NGC 2020 arera of Large Magellanic Cloud. Taken from Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, March 19, 2007. Taken with Canon 20Da and Astro-Physics 106mm apo refractor with telecompressor at f/4.5 and ISO 400 for stack of 4 x 10 minute exposures under warm conditions.
Large Magellanic Cloud, NGC 20870 Tarantula Nebula area (east end of LMC). Taken March 19, 2007 from Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia. Taken with Canon 20Da and Astro-Physics 106mm apo refractor with telecompressor at f/4.5 and ISO 400 for stack of 1x 12 + 4 x 10 minute exposures under warm conditions.
LMC Mosaic, of two frames left and right side of LMC, taken with 77mm Borg astrographic refractor at f/4.3 and Hutech-modified Canon 5D at ISO 400 for 10 minute exposures -- each side is stack of 4 (left) or 5 (right) frames. No processing applied to pre-stitching layered files, just alignment and noise reduction with Noise Ninja. Mosaic created with Photoshop CS3 with Photomerge function -- in comparing it to Calico-created pan, it did not crop more of the image and did not have any residual registration artifacts visible at top in Calico-stitched version. Did have to touch up hard seam with Spot Healing tool. Taken from Coonabarabran, NSW, March 15, 2007.
