Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Dorado (Dor)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1787  ·  Part of the constellation Dorado (Dor)  ·  The constellation Mensa (Men)  ·  The star α Men  ·  The star β Dor  ·  The star γ Hyi  ·  The star γ Men  ·  The star δ Dor  ·  The star ε Dor  ·  The star η2 Dor  ·  The star θ Dor  ·  The star κ Dor  ·  The star ν Dor
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Large Magellanic Cloud, George Hatfield
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Large Magellanic Cloud

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Large Magellanic Cloud

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In 2014, I obtained 18 x 300sec subs of the LMC from T. Jittasaiyapan (Thailand), who imaged this dwarf galaxy in 2011 from Australia.  The system he used consisted of a 50mm Nikon lens attached to an SBIG ST8300c color camera.  This image is a reprocessing of that data.  The most difficult step proved to be color calibration with SPCC...  what filters to use for such an old color camera?  The luminance was extracted from the RGB image and sharpened before adding it back.

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Large Magellanic Cloud, George Hatfield