SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
Jon Greif
Location of Photo:
Rio Hurtado Valley, Chile, remotely from Alpine, CA, USA
Date/Time of photo:
November 7 and 9, 2024, between Midnight and 4 AM local time
Equipment:
3411 mm f/6.8 PlaneWave L-500 telescope + FLI ML16200 camera, Mount: PlaneWave L-500, no guiding.
Description:
A little late for Halloween, this is the Ghost Head Nebula, NGC 2080, a star-forming region and emission nebula to the south of the 30 Doradus (Tarantula) nebula, in the southern constellation Dorado. It belongs to the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way, which is at a distance of 168,000 light years. NGC 2080 has a diameter of 50 light-years and was discovered by John Frederick William Herschel in 1834. The image is from data I collected remotely over 2 nights last week from a 20 inch PlaneWave Instruments CDK 20" f/6.8 reflecting telescope belonging to the iTelescope.net network in the Rio Hurtado Valley of Western Chile and processed with Pixinsight 1.8.9-3 software.
