These objects of several open clusters and their sourrounding nebulae named NGC1760,NGC1761,NGC1763 and NGC1769 can be found at the noth side of the Large Magellanic Cloud in the constallation of Doradus.
NGC1760 is an emission nebula,also named LHA120-N 11,the other NGC objects are OCs.The small bubble to the extreme right is the Supernova remnant N11L.
At a real distance of about 160.000 light-years,this is one the largest known star formation areas,yet surpassed by the famous Tarantula nebula (30 Doradus).The oldest stars,bright,blue and massive, can be found inside NGC1761.
All these objects were fist seen by James Dunlop in 1826.
Here you can see a widefield image by José Joaquin Perez.
position (epoch2000) of NGC1760:
RA.: 04h 56m 51,5s
Decl.: −66° 24′ 25″
image data:
LRGB image with L = synth.of all, RGB = 8x1200s each,a total of 8.0 hours
ND (Hubble-Palette) Ha,OIII,S = 10x2400sec each,a total of 20.0 hours
80cm f/7 AstroOptik Keller corrected cassegrain FLI Proline 16803 Astrodon LRGB GenII filters
Prompt 7 CTIO/UNC Chile,remote controlled
image processing: Bernd Flach-Wilken
the total field of the FLI-CCD-camera can be seen in this LRGB-picture.For full resolution click here
here you find a labeled version:
this is a NarrowBand-version,mapped in the Hubble-Palette (R=S,G=Ha,B=OIII).For full resolution click here