NGC 2070 — The Tarantula Nebula: They’re Creepy and They’re Spooky

by Bob Meincke

Objects in field: Tarantula Nebula, NGC 2042, NGC 2044, NGC 2050, NGC 2055, NGC 2060, NGC 2069, NGC 2070, NGC 2081, NGC 2092, NGC 2093, NGC 2094, NGC 2100, NGC 2108, 30 Dor Cluster

Equipment: Askar 91F Flat-Field, ZWO ASI585MC Pro

Integration: 21h 25m

NGC 2070 — The Tarantula Nebula: They’re Creepy and They’re Spooky The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus or NGC 2070, is one of the most powerful star-forming regions in the Local Group. It lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way roughly 160,000 light-years away. Despite that distance, it is so luminous that if it were as close as the Orion Nebula, it…