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      Tarantula Nebula
      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

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      CHI-1-CCD

      Tarantula Nebula