A Bicolor Tarantula - APOD 11-16-2017

Bicolor composed as (RGB) <-- (H-alpha:OIII:OIII)

Featured in APOD on November 16, 2017.

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IMAGING DATA
Optical train: AP167FLZ + flattener
Mount: AP1100 CP4
Guiding: QHY5II-L, 60/230 guidescope.
Camera: Apogee U16M (-30°C)
Filters: Astrodon 2nd Gen 3nm H-alpha,OIII
Frames: 10x20-min H-alpha, 9x20-min OIII, both binned 1x1
Processing: PI 1.8 + Canon DPP
Date: 2017-11-10 and 11
Place: General Pacheco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Seeing & transparency: good/good on the 10th and average/poor on the 11th (occasional high thin clouds)

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  • Subashi Samarasinghe, from Sri Lanka on 2017-Dec-03 06:39:13 Subashi Samarasinghe, from Sri Lanka said

    so beautiful! how do you take such stunning photos. they look like from Hubble space telescope

  • R on 2019-Oct-18 02:44:05 R said

    Fantastic!
    I am new to AP, but I can really appreciate the effort in time,money and skill to achieve such a great image.
    Congratulations.