Unfortunately the weather gods played their usual trick allowing me no more than a few minutes each time at this target before clouding over again and again..so at the end of the night I had nowhere near the total exposure I had hoped to get

still it was first light so I cant really complain.

site: Blue Mountains (60 km west of Sydney)
target: nebulae and clusters in the LMC (in the region surrounding NGC 2032 and friends)
scope: ED 80 on autoguided CG5 mount
Canon Digital Rebel (IR filter removed-Baader UV/IR filter used)
4x5 minutes at ISO 800
processed in IRIS and Photoshop

for larger images (warning large files) go to:

for crop around seagull nebula
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...81843&si ze=o

for the widefield


http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...81841&si ze=l

This is my first ever image with a modded Canon ;thanks for looking, comments and suggestions welcome

Attached Images

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Hi seeker,

the attached image is lovely. Your two flickr links don't work since they are truncated.

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Same here. I could not get the links to open.
Also, I place the Seagull Nebula North East of Sirius between Canis Major and Monoceros and not in the Large Magellan Cloud.
Lovely image nonetheless.

Phil

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Your image is very pretty - so many beautiful stars!

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oops!

try again

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...3381843&size=o
for the full res crop


and

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...3381841&size=l

for the widefield

Phil:

i guess two objects have the same name-NGC 2032 is in the LMC and also known as the seagull nebula as is IC 2177 (as you point out)

here is a note from Ice In Space, an Australian forum

quote
"The Seagull Nebula is a nebula complex that contains four separate NGC designations: NGC 2029, NGC 2032, NGC 2035 and NGC 2040 with NGC 2035 being the brightest and largest of the group. Collectively the area is known as N59A and is located at the boundary of the supershell LMC4 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. NGC 2032 and 2035, which form the bright core of the H II region N59A (B053530- 6736), belong to a single H II region which looks divided due to the presence of a heavy dust lane. This bright core presents an expansion motion of 24 km s-1."
unquote

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.p...69,251,0,0,1,0
who names these things anyway ?

Thank You! I never realized that there were two with similar names. A Google search came up with the one near Sirius and not the other one.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/stellar/scene...t_e/ic2177.htm
Your's is a beautiful example especially the larger pics.
Excellent work!

Phil

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Aw shucks! They are beautiful, seeker

thanks for sharing

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thanks Mahesh and Phil