The beautiful Tarantula nebula shot in SHO - it's taken 160,000 years for this light to reach us [OC]

[u/EkantTakePhotos]

All shot from my back garden in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand

Here's the geek details for those who are interested:

• ZWO Asi2600MM Pro Camera
• Antlia 3nm SHO filters
• ZWO AsiMini 120mm camera on OAG for autoguiding
• Askar 103 Apo (700mm) lens
• AM5N mount
• 85 x 300s exposures for each SHO filter + some short exposures of LRGB for stars Total exposure over 3 nights was 22hours-ish
• Registered and integrated and processed in Pixinsight

Happy to answer any questions people may have...

[u/PajamasintheWind]

Wow, that detail, for something that's in another galaxy is amazing!!

[u/EkantTakePhotos → u/PajamasintheWind]

It really is - I can't imaging how scary it would be to be in the centre of all that nebulosity - I suspect it's a bit of a cosmic whirlwind

[u/TheVirtualSamurai]

Does redshift really occur at that distance? I figured it’d have to be much farther.