It's hard to determine what this image should be labelled as. There are so many objects in this one image that it is hard to just choose one.
This is a rich area within the Large Magellanic Cloud(LMC).
I have included a annotated image, courtesy of Astrometry.net , and you can easily see the bountiful treasure hidden within the LMC.
One of the objects NGC 1978 has a interesting story.
Some catalogs have it down as an elliptical open cluster and others as an Globular cluster. Must say that when viewing this visually it sure looks like your typical GC, would love to revisit this one with more aperture under darker skies for a better look.
I tried a few new techniques in photoshop with very good results, the more I play with PS the more I like it. Together with Star tools they make a good pair.
This image consists of the following:
140 X 25 second exposures.
Dark and flat frames applied.
ISO 1600.
Meade series 4000 UHC nebular filter.
Canon 1200D.
Skywatcher 102 alt/az synscan goto.
This was all captured on the 13th January 2018.
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