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Arizona Blond Tarantula (Aphonopelma chalcodes) This was taken in Cordes Lakes, Arizona. I see these guys in my yard from time to time during the monsoon and on the rare occasion in my house. Though mildly poisonous, they seem to be very docile. Even when I one time nudged one out of the road, it didn't try to bite my shoe
Not sure why I did this...! This is me in my room, with an SB900 at the top left of the photo pointing downwards...trying to get some different lighting...not sure if I succeeded..?
The blending took me ages, and I didn't change the background because I wanted it to look realistic-like...in a weird way..!
Just in time for Halloween, this desert tarantula was hanging out on the side of Mosaic Canyon. As usual, this spider was extremely mellow with many hikers passing by without even noticing it was there (including me on the first pass!)
Death Valley National Park
One of the most interesting active regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud (one of the Milky Way's satellite Galaxies).
The Tarantula Nebula is the most active starburst region known in the Local Group of Galaxies. The Local Group comprises more than 54 Galaxies (mostly dwarf Galaxies). The three largest members of the group (in descending order) are the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy.
The Tarantula Nebula (also known as NGC 2070, the Doradus Nebula, or 30 Doradus) is a H II region in the very dense Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The LMC is one of the irregular satellite dwarf Galaxies of the Milky Way Galaxy, that is among the closest Galaxies to Earth. There is also a Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), both discovered by Magellan. The Magellanic Clouds are visible from the Southern Hemisphere with the naked eye.
Gear:
William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO Refractor Telescope.
William Optics 50mm Finder Scope.
Celestron SkySync GPS Accessory.
Orion Mini 50mm Guide Scope.
Orion StarShoot Autoguider.
Celestron AVX Mount.
QHYCCD PoleMaster.
Celestron StarSense.
QHY163M Cooled CMOS Monochrome Camera.
QHYCFW2-M-US Filterwheel (7 position x 36mm).
Tech:
Guiding in Open PHD 2.6.3.
Image acquisition in Sequence Generator Pro.
Lights/Subs:
2 Stage CMOS Cooling
Imaged at -25°C
Gain: 5
Offset: 40
LRGB:
L = 16 x 180 sec. 16bit FITS.
R = 12 x 180 sec. 16bit FITS.
G = 12 x 180 sec. 16bit FITS.
B = 12 x 180 sec. 16bit FITS.
Enhanced emission lines:
L-Pro used for Luminance (instead of default L filter).
OIII (496, 500nm)
H-beta (486nm)
NII (654, 658nm)
H-alpha (656nm)
SII (672nm)
Infrared cut-off at 700-1100nm
Calibration Frames:
50 x Bias/Offset.
25 x Darks.
20 x Flats & Dark Flats.
Image Acquisition:
Sequence Generator Pro with the Mosaic and Framing Wizard.
Plate Solving:
Astrometry.net ANSVR Solver via SGP.
Processing:
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.
Astrometry Info:
View an Annotated Sky Chart for this image.
Center RA, Dec: 83.016, -68.786
Center RA, hms: 05h 32m 03.928s
Center Dec, dms: -68° 47' 07.835"
Size: 2.89 x 2.18 deg
Radius: 1.812 deg
Pixel scale: 6.51 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is -93.3 degrees E of N
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From the Wikipedia entry: Tarantula hawk wasps are relatively docile and rarely sting without provocation. However, the sting—particularly that of P. grossa—is among the most painful of all insects, though the intense pain only lasts about five minutes.[9] One researcher described the pain as "...immediate, excruciating, unrelenting pain that simply shuts down one's ability to do anything, except scream. Mental discipline simply does not work in these situations."
A snapshot of the Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is featured in this Hubble Space Telescope image. The Tarantula Nebula is a large star-forming region of ionized hydrogen gas that lies 161,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and its turbulent clouds of gas and dust appear to swirl between the region’s bright, newly formed stars.
The Tarantula Nebula is a familiar site for Hubble. It is the brightest star-forming region in our galactic neighborhood and home to the hottest, most massive stars known. This makes it a perfect natural laboratory in which to test out theories of star formation and evolution, and Hubble has a rich variety of images of this region.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, E. Sabbi; Acknowledgment: Y. -H. Chu
For more information: www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2023/hubbles-new-view-...
Brachypelma vagans
One of more than a dozen individuals found active at night on the forest floor in a tract of tropical lowland forest in Belize. These large spiders burrow, coming out at night to forage for any prey they can overpower. When aroused, this species will flick off the hairs of its abdomen with its legs, which are irritating to the eyes and nose. They are reluctant to bite, but will do so if disturbed enough. Unsurprisingly, an established population of this tarantula exists in St. Lucie County, Florida.
Tarantula Nebula
14.5" Newtonian on a Nova 120
QSI 532 Equipment owned by Bob Sandness
Data acquired and preprocessed by Hamza Touhami using Prism software.
Postprocessed by me in PixInsight
About 5 hours lum and 1 hour each of RGB
A big and hairy tarantula on the hand of a stalwart woman at Reptile House 'De Aarde' in the Dutch city of Breda
Een grote harige vogelspin op de hand van een stoere vrouw bij Reptielenhuis 'De Aarde' in Breda
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My version of the Tarantula Nebula. Made from Webb Telescope data (wavelengths 90 + 187&200 combined + 335&444 combined)
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- FSQ-106ED (D=106mm, f=530mm)
- HOBYM Crux 200HDA
- CentralDS AstroZ6, Baader H-alpha and O3 filters
- Lacerta MGEN-II w. 50mm guide scope
- Processed in Pixinsight and LightRoom
Thanks to the hubby for the good eye and pointing these out for me! We went to watch the sunset and we saw these little guys on branches mating. They do sting! But I didn't care. LOL I got really close. And this one was completely a LUCKY shot. I had it on continuous mode and it decided to fly up to the other bug. They were mating so maybe that's why they didn't care about me. I love the fact that they have beautiful colors on their wings. These guys attack and eat Tarantulas. Can you believe it!? Wow.
Probably Aphonopelma hentzi, our most common Texas tarantula species, crossing a trail at the Wildflower Center in Austin, 5/31/19. Found fairly often in central Texas. The legs can span as much as 10 cm, but this one was more like 7 cm. The hairs are irritating to the skin of human, and the bite can be painful, but the spider is not dangerous to humans.
They're fascinating creatures! They're very docile, and although their sting is the second most painful, it's not deadly. Still, as you should with all wildlife, I kept a safe & respectable distance.
This was a female (curly antennae vs. straight) and they're the only ones who sting. They can grow up to 2 inches long and when they flew past us, we could hear and see them for quite some time as they were moving away.
The females hunt tarantulas, paralyze them with their stingers, then drag them back to their nest to lay an egg in their abdomen. After that, they cover the hole in their nest to prevent the spider from escaping and once the egg hatches, the larvae feeds on the tarantula. They avoid vital organs to keep the tarantula alive for as long as possible so the larvae can develop into an adult.
We took a photo drive out to Santa Margarita area yesterday hoping to see some birds...not so many. But I did find this colorful Tarantula Hawk Wasp. These wasps are quite large - up to 2 inches. Per Wikipedia - the female wasp captures, stings, and paralyzes a tarantula spider, then either drags her prey back into her own burrow or transports it to a specially prepared nest, where a single egg is laid on the spider’s abdomen. Gender of the larvae is determined by fertilization; fertilized eggs produce females while unfertilized eggs produce males. 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. Rather gruesome, but interesting.
The Tarantula Nebula is located in the skies of the southern hemisphere in the constellation Dorado, the Dolphin. The nebula is located on the left side of the Flickr photo shown in blue-white. The Flickr photo suggests the violent and dynamic nature of the of NGC 2070. The exterior of the nebula is surrounded by gnarled, gaseous structures that indicate that this region is an area of extreme agitation and in a state of constant violent activities.
The Tarantula Nebula is not located in our Milky Way Galaxy (MWG). It is outside of the MWG in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) which is a dwarf galaxy that orbits the MWG at a distance 160,000 light years from Earth. The diameter of the nebula is about 1860 light years, making it about 775 times larger than the Orion Nebula.
The Tarantula Nebula is the most active stellar formation region within the Local Group of Galaxies that includes the MWG, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Triangulum Galaxy (M33), and about 50 dwarf galaxies.
The Tarantula Nebula derives its name from the spidery leg structures that are caused by stellar winds. These stellar winds are generated by the newly born hot massive stars. The winds are violently sculpting out pockets of gas and dust that are surrounding these giant stars .
NGC 2070 is classified as a star burst region indicating that it is forming stars from ionized hydrogen gas and interstellar dust at a very high rate compared to the star formation rate of emission nebulae in our MWG. NGC 2070 is a massive stellar nursery in which new stars are being formed at a tremendous rate. The new stars are some of the largest that have ever been observed (up to 300 times the mass of our Sun). These massive O-type stars are extremely hot and go through their entire life spans in a few tens of millions of years. The stars are basically unstable and eventually result in supernovae explosions.
The supernova explosion SN 1987A occurred in 1978 near the Tarantula Nebula. Because of its relatively close proximity to Earth, SN 1978A has been studied in such detail that it has become a “standard candle”. A “standard candle” is an astronomical light source with a known luminosity that can be used to measure distances to other more distant galaxies that lie elsewhere in the Universe when these supernovae flareup in these galaxies. Supernovae of the type SN 1978A appear regularly in distant galaxies.
These powerful events make the NGC 2070 a great nearby target for the study of stellar evolution. The location of the LMC means that we do not have to look through obscuring interstellar dust clouds in the MWG to see and study an abundance of star forming regions in our galaxy. The view of the LMC and the star forming regions is relatively pristine and easily observed while providing us with a spectacular ring side seat to a nearby galactic source to study all of the stages of stellar evolution.
Three narrowband science filters were used to capture the Hubble Palette image of the Tarantula Nebula. These are the narrowband ionized hydrogen (HII), the doubly ionized oxygen (OIII), and the singly ionized sulfur (SII) filters that provide the green, blue, brown, and yellow areas of the photo, which provides a psuedo-3D perspective to a 2D image.
The remotely controlled CHI-2 astrograph that was used to take the image data is located at the El Sauce Observatory complex located in the high-altitude Atacama Desert in Chile. The CHI-2 robotic astrograph is optically composed of an ASA 500N, a 50-cm f/3.8 corrected Newtonian reflecting telescope. The imaging system attached to CHI-2 is the Finger Lakes Instrumentation FLI PL 16803 Monochrome CCD astronomical imaging camera equipped with a HII, SII, and OIII narrowband science filters which can be inserted into the optical train of the system in front of the camera. AstroDon 2Gen 3nm filters were used to capture image data.
Thirty-eight 5-minute exposures using the HII, SII, and OIII science filters were taken to make the equivalent of one 3.2 hours exposure. About 630 MB of image data from CHI-2 was downloaded via the Internet to my home PC for processing. The following software was used to process the HST raw data: Astro Pixel Processor, PixInsight, Photoshop 2021, Topaz Denoise AI, and Topaz Sharpen AI.
Arizona
Aphonopelma chalcodes AZ Blonde Tarantula f.
Tucson, AZ., U.S.
Photos By RaVen - 2016
Apple iPhone 6S Plus
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About this tarantula:
This photo is of a juvenile male Brachypelma albopilosum. His name is Arnold Schwarzelegger. I acquired him in 2017, and as of the taking of the photo, he had a diagonal leg span of about 3.5 inches.