Large Magellanic cloud and green Tarantula
Dark nebulae in and around Crux
Before the Moon on 21st April 2014 rised, I had to use every minute without the moonlit on Waiotahi beach, New Zealand, for capturing images of “jewels” of southern sky. Two of them are maybe the most famous. First at all the Large Magellanic cloud visible to naked eyes and in telescope with bright nebula Tarantula. On picture it has very magnificent green color. It’s the largest gallaxy in the night sky except the Milky way itself. The second image shows surrounding of majestic constellation Crux with differently colored stars and basically submerged in Milky way full of dark nebulae. The biggest one – dark Coalsack is almost in the middle of image. Atractive is also “wormy” nebula under the Crux called Dark doodad in constellation Musca. For LMC used Canon 6D, Tamron 70-300 mm @ 92 mm, f4,5, 72×15 s, ISO 16 000, darkframes applied, tripod. Second image is made with same camera and lenses, ISO and processing way, only f88 mm, f4,5, 45×15 s.
