Object: The Tarantula Nebula NGC 2070           Constell: DOR

RA: 05h 38m 36s         Decl: -69° 05'          Epoch: 2000
Mag:                    Size: 40'               Type: 

Observer: Jere Kahanpää
Obs. place: LaSilla, Chile
Date/Time:  23./24.11.1993, 03.25

Telescope: C 200/2000
Magn: 80x               Filter:
Field: 40'              NE Lim.mag: 6.5m
Background sky: 1       Seeing: 1 
Weather: Moon low W.               

Brightness: 1           Alt:    
Description: An extremely bright and complicated HII emission
region. Brightest stars mag. 7. The 'tarantula' shape was not
very easy to see: the thin wisps on the E side clearly are some
legs and the loop S of the center is the body.