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.
A 4-panel mosaic of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and visible only from the southern hemisphere. The field takes in most of the LMC and its numerous nebulas and clusters. Notable is the Tarantula Nebula, NGC 2070, the cyan-tinted nebula at far left, surrounded by many other NGC nebulas and clusters. At right is the second largest and brightest nebula complex in the LMC, NGC 1763, dubbed the LMC Lagoon. This is a 4-panel mosaic taken March 31, 2016 from the Tibuc Cottage, Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia. Each panel is a stack of 4 x 3 minute exposures with the Borg 77mm f/4 astrographic refractor and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600. Stitched in Photoshop.
