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Image taken using the Telescope Live robotic CHI-3 telescope from the El Sauce Observatory in Chile.
Telescope: ASA RC-1000AZ 100cm f/6.8
Lum: 2 x 10m
Red: 2 x 10m
Green: 2 x 10m
Blue: 2 x 10m
CCD camera: FLI PL16803
4096 x 4096 0.27 arcsec/px
19.7' x 19.7' FOV (slightly cropped).
Astrodon LRGB filters.
ASA Alt-Az Direct Drive Mount
I thought i had best add some of the creatures i am not so fond of for my Virtual zoo, although i do think he looks fluffy and cute
Original Stock image from pixabay
Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 250pds + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6-R-Pro + ZWO EAF + ZWO 7x2" EFW
Equipo guía: starguider 60/240 mm, ZWO ASI 120mm mini
*Gain 139, -20 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 140x180"
*Gain 139, -20 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 72x180"
*Gain 139, -20 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 62x180"
100 Darks
100 Flats por filtro
Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2
Adquisición: SGP 3.1
Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS
Una que siempre encuentro. Tarántula de rodillas rojas. No atacan a menos que se las moleste. Explorando el río Turrialba, río arriba.
Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus) in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Data acquired remotely using the Telescope Live CHI-4 telescope located at the El Sauce Observatory, Chile.
Telescope: ASA 500N Newtonian. 500mm aperture, focal length 1900mm, f/3.8
CCD Camera: Finger Lake Instruments FLI 16803. 4096 x 4096 array. 0.98 arc-seconds per pixel.
Equatorial Mount: ASA DDM85 direct drive.
Exposure:
Lum: 3 x 10m
RGB 2 x 10m per filter
Processed with Maxim DL, PixInsight and Photoshop CC 2020.
Here's a tarantula hawk I saw in Portal, AZ.
The sting from one of these gets a 4 on the Schmidt Sting Pain Index (4 is the maximum score).
I didn't get stung by one (they're not aggressive unless you're a tarantula), but one description of the sting says, "Getting stung by a tarantula hawk leaves a person breathless and completely incapacitated, nearly writhing in pain for the better part of 5-10 mins."
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My daughter loves animals - and yes, even weird things....so when she had the chance to have a tarantula crawl up her shoulder, she jumped on it. YUCK!!! Just plain Stupidity in my book!!
San Francisco Pass, Catamarca Province, Argentina
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These arms...
Deep in the shadows of your deepest secrets
I sleep next to the precepts you hold most dear
Your heart is in my province hour upon hour
I shiver when you feel the cold
Everything you say I hear
Like a bomb and its fuse
We bring bright light
But I could be a devil to you
I could bite like a tarantula
Right through the skin
And leave my poison dripping
Deliciously unsuspecting
Protecting you from all harm
Except perhaps from these arms
That hold you...
Tarantula
Texas, south of Alpine, in the Big Bend area, Brewster County.
16 Sept 2009, 11:30am
This is the fourth tarantula photo that I have uploaded onto Flickr (one in 2007 and two in 2008) -- they all look pretty much alike. But I figured I should upload this one to re-iterate that tarantulas are a common sight in the southwest. Easterners are not used to seeing them. Driving along, you see an occasional tarantula crossing the road.
There are 14 species of tarantula in Texas. They are difficult to distinguish. Genus is Aphonopelma.
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Tarantula - Andes Mountains, Ecuador
An unidentified species of tarantula from the Ecuadorian Andes.
Esta é uma aranha da família Theraphosidae em posição de defesa. Elas vivem em buracos no chão e se alimentam durante a noite.
This is a spider of the family Theraphosidae in defense position. They live in holes made in the ground and feed overnight.
Curiously, some academics don't consider tarantulas to be "true" spiders. It would perhaps be more accurate to call them "old" or "primitive" spiders as opposed to modern spiders.
Tarantulas (and a few other others like Trapdoor and Funnelweb spiders) are from an older genetic lineage than most spiders, having branched off in their own direction millions of years ago.
In practice the differences are minor - e.g. Tarantulas have downward-facing fangs rather than the opposing fangs of most (but not all!) "true" spiders.
Did you know? Often large and hairy, some tarantula species live in the trees, while others live in holes in the ground.
It may take many years for a tarantula to reach sexual maturity, and while males rarely live more than a year beyond this date, females may continue living for 20 years or more.
Keine Sorge, es handelt sich hier nur um die alte Haut einer brasilianischen Riesenvogelspinne die ich von Linda zur Verfügung gestellt bekommen habe.
Just one of the many cool things I got to see in the rain forest in Costa Rica - a large tarantula poking her long legs out of her burrow, complete with droplets of water clinging to the fine hairs on those legs. Tarcoles area.
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Interior view of the lobby and guest floors of a 5-star hotel in Singapore's Esplanade.
Part of the ongoing fine art series: Stacked II - Architecture of Singapore
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Visible in the Southern Hemisphere, the Tarantula Nebula is a large open cluster at the heart of the bright region in the centre-south-east of the Large Magellanic Cloud. It produces most of the energy that makes the latter's gas and dust visible. Distance 48kpc / 158k LY.
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It's fairly common to see these tarantula hawk wasps at Boyce Thompson Arboretum. While reportedly not very aggressive, their stings apparently hurts like the devil. So I do keep my distance. Interesting creatures.
A tarantula was one of the animals that local residents could meet at the Party, along with snakes armadillos and other creatures.
A tarantula hawk is a spider wasp that preys on tarantulas. The female tarantula hawk wasp stings a tarantula between the legs, paralyzes it, then drags the prey to a specially prepared burrow, where a single egg is laid on the spider's abdomen, and the burrow entrance is covered. When the wasp larva hatches, it creates a small hole in the spider's abdomen, then enters and feeds voraciously, avoiding vital organs for as long as possible to keep the spider alive. After several weeks, the larva pupates. Finally, the wasp becomes an adult and emerges from the spider's abdomen to continue the life cycle.
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A fight between a big spider and a big blue wasp, the spider lost! Seen in Thailand in the forest. We’ve seen a big brown spider walking on the ground near a big tree. It was rather dark down om the ground in the forest. Suddenly a huge insect with beautiful blue and fast flapping his wings came down and attached the spider. and the fight was wild an very fast, difficult to focus. I’ve been so surprised, so I didn’t even think to set my camera on 4 k photo ode series shooting. First, we thought it was a big blue butterfly because the size of the wings, but then my friends saw, the insect was stinging the spider into its bally, again and again, until it was paralysed. Then it transported the spider up the tree trunk, it carried it and walked up. Unfortunately I couldn’t get it in focus so quick.
After that, we look up in the internet to find out what kind of insect it was and we came to the result, it must have been a tarantula hawk, it obviously can be in different colors. Ours was blue. If anybody here knows better, please let me know!
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I saw the biggest tarantula I've ever seen in my life... It was beautiful but quite scary... and I wanted to show its size by putting something beside it so you could compare; the only thing I had with me was the lens cap and it is 52 milimeters, so now you have an idea of how big the tarantula was.
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A giant nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud
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Durante o XII EPA - Encontro Paraibano de Astrofotografia
Data - 14/11/2025
Hora - 21:52 ~ 23:00 local (-3 UTC)
Local - Matureia, PB - Brasil
Bortle - Class 3
Telescopio - SW Evo Star 72ED
Montagem - HEQ5 PRO
Guider - SW 9 x 50 + ASI 120MC
Câmera - ASI 183 MC Pro + IR UV CUT
Gain - 120
Lights - 12 x 300s (60 min)
Darks - Biases
Temperatura do sensor 0°C
Software Captura - ASIAIR
Softwares Processamento - PixInsight/RC Astro/PhotoShop
Tarantula Hawks (Pepsis sp) are large parasitoid wasps that lay eggs in Tarantula Spiders. They also reputedly have one of the most painful stings on the planet. There are 133 species and I'm not sure which species this is that I photographed in southern Baja as most are rather similar. This one was about 5cm from head to tail tip. The female wasps hunt Tarantulas and sting them, injecting venom which permanently paralyses the spider, but it remains alive. The wasp then lays a single egg in the host and the larva will feed on the spider's haemolymph (blood) and body tissues. It then pupates and emerges as an adult Tarantula Hawk from its now dead host. But the adult wasps are not carnivorous, but feed on pollen and nectar from a few favoured flower species.
American entomologist Justin Schmidt created the Pain Scale for Stinging Insects: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_sting_pain_index He once described the Tarantula Hawk's sting as 'instantaneous, electrifying and totally debilitating'. They have been awarded second place on Schmidt's Sting Pain Index, beaten only by the South American Bullet Ant (Paraponera clavata). With such a powerful sting it is perhaps unsurprising that Tarantula Hawks have no known predators. The orange wings are an easy to remember warning colouration so any would-be predators will recognise them.
NGC 2070, The Tarantula Nebula redux version
Completely reprocessed from scratch… it took me 3 months to understand how to process this one…
This image consist of 22.5h of narrowband data with an additional 1.5h for the RGB stars
Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/by3ftp/
🔭: Askar 107 PHQ
📷: ASI 1600mm Pro
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6-R
️: -10
⚫️: Antlia Ha 3nm 45x 600s
⚫️: Antlia Oiii 3nm 45x 600s
⚫️: Antlia Oiii 3nm 45x 600s
🔴: Antlia Pro Red 40 x 45s
: Antlia Pro Green 40 x 45s
🔵: Antlia Pro Blue 40 x 45s
Integration:
24h
Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 250pds + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6-R-Pro + ZWO EAF + ZWO 7x2" EFW
Equipo guía: starguider 60/240 mm, ZWO ASI 120mm mini
*Gain 139, -20 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 140x180"
*Gain 139, -20 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 72x180"
*Gain 139, -20 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 62x180"
100 Darks
100 Flats por filtro
Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2
Adquisición: SGP 3.1
Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS