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      Site for Super Nova's 1987A and Ngc2060 Remnants
      Wallpaper author:
      Dave Larkin

      22 Jan 2026

      Site for Super Nova's 1987A and Ngc2060 Remnants

      Here is Ngc2070 the Tarantula Nebula in Narrowband HSO very famous for Supernova 1987A the brightest and closest since Kepler’s in 1604 within the outskirts of the Nebula.I consider myself very fortunate to witness this event live and held many Public Astronomy nights with my Local Astronomy Society from Feb through end of March before fading.Processed with Astro Pixel Processor from Masters created using RGB Combine then finished in Pixinsight ......

      Dataset from which the image was processed

      NGC 2070

      2 credit

      Open
      Telescope Live
      CHI-2-CCD
      • Type of target
        ............................................................................................................................
        Emission Nebula
      • Camera
        ............................................................................................................................
        FLI PL16803
      • Target coordinates
        ............................................................................................................................
        RA 84.8125 Dec -69.3275
      • Hemisphere
        ............................................................................................................................
        Southern
      • Telescope location
        ............................................................................................................................
        Chile
      • Transient event
        ............................................................................................................................
        No
      • Observed on
        ............................................................................................................................
        01 Sept 2020 - 20 Sept 2020
      Filter
      Avg Exp (s)
      Total Exposure
      Subframes
      SII3461h15m13
      Halpha3691h20m13
      OIII17535m12

      Site for Super Nova's 1987A and Ngc2060 Remnants