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Remember the ‘Space Jockey’ from the derelict spaceship in the first Alien movie?
Found him in the Large Magellenic Cloud with NGC 1925 & Friends.
This image is a collaboration with my astro buddy Paul M. whose gear has a remarkably similar FOV to mine.
Paul lives under rural Bortle 2/3 skies, and after plate solving a sub of mine to orient his camera, took nice clean RGB for the stars using the following…
SVX80-3SV with SFF4-80T field flattener, ZWO ASI2600MC Pro camera,
32 X 120 second subs, shot with Voyager.
I took the Narrowband data from my light polluted suburban Bortle 6/7 location in Melbourne, Australia.
It’s an amazing region to target!
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About this Nebula
Very few if any stand alone images of this fascinating target, that when rotated 90 degrees CCW also resembles an olympic swimmer on the starting blocks, or a busy cyclist!
Also of interest is an almost golden, irregular shaped globular cluster at 8 o’clock, and the distant galaxy in the top right cnr.
The LMC itself is a distorted barred spiral galaxy. Tidal gravitational forces from it’s companion, the SMC and the Milky Way have resulted in many of these wacky irregular shaped nebulae present.
Dallas: “Alien life form. Looks like it’s been dead a long time. Fossilised. Looks like it’s growing out of the chair.”