NGC2069, the Tarantula nebula.
The image was taken at a rubber plantation in Guatemala during a visit with Adriana Sherman on January 11th, 2005.
This image is a stack of 32 thirty second exposures using an ST-10 CCD camera
on a Tele Vue NP-101 101mm f/5.4 apochromatic refractor equipped with a 0.8x focal reducer.
The object was 6.9 degrees above the horizon at the time, and the sky was hazy with
the smoke from the local sugar cane harvest.
The image was calibrated, stacked and enhanced using AIP4WIN.
It has been cropped from the original 2184 x 1472 image.
To date, this is the southernmost object I have ever observed or imaged.
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