Lying between the Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070) and the main galactic bar of the LMC, this region contains a good number of highly active emission nebulae. The “Ghost Head Nebula” is centred around the open star cluster, NGC 2080, which comprises a number of quite young, very hot stars.
The “ghost head” is the nebula just left of centre in this image. The resolution of this image is too low to recognize the two 'eyes' of the ghost nebula.
There are numerous other clusters and filaments of nebulosity in this part of the LMC.
Just to the right is the open cluster NGC 2077; to the left and a bit below NGC 2080 are NGC 2085 and NGC 2086 located. Further below center there is a group of clusters embedded in nebulosity, 2083, 2084, 2078 and 2079. Above the center two open clusters and nebulosity can be found NGC 2074 and NGC 2081. These are just a few of the objects that can be found in this picture.
I scheduled 35 missions through the Slooh Chili two telescope with a total exposure time of a bit more than one hour. The resulting FITS-files were combined and further processed in PixInsight.
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