Wallpaper author:
Paul Waddington
15 Jan 2026
Tarantula Nebula
The Tarantula Nebula, also known as NGC 2070 and 30 Doradus, is a huge HII region located in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Stacking done in SAS Pro, background extraction and deconvolution in GraXpert. Star removal (with Starnet++) and statistical stretching in SAS Pro. Further processing in Affinity Photo including denoising with NoiseXterminator.
Combined L and Ha channels as luminance layer
Dataset from which the image was processed
NGC 2070
20 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Emission Nebula
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI ProLine PL9000
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 84.65 Dec -69.0864
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Chile
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................31 Oct 2019 - 26 Nov 2022
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halpha | 371 | 12h40m | 123 |
| Luminance | 439 | 15h | 123 |
| Green | 290 | 9h55m | 123 |
| Red | 504 | 17h5m | 122 |
| Blue | 440 | 14h55m | 122 |