Eta Carina and Surrounding Nebula (NGC 3372) (Jeff McClure)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Carina (Car) · Contains: Carina Nebula · Foramen · HD303308 · HD303311 · HD305438 · HD305520 · HD305536 · HD305544 · HD92937 · HD93027 · HD93128 · HD93130 · HD93131 · HD93146 · HD93160 · HD93161 · HD93162 · HD93191 · HD93204 · HD93205 · HD93206 · HD93222 · HD93250 · HD93281 · HD93420 · HD93500 · HD93632 · NGC 3372 · eta Car · eta Car Nebula

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Eta Carina and Surrounding Nebula (NGC 3372)

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Eta Carina and Surrounding Nebula (NGC 3372)

This is an image of the supergiant star Eta Carina and the molecular clouds immediately surrounding it in the Carina constellation, deep in the southern hemisphere (NGC 3372). The image is a mosaic created from 22 imaging sessions with exposures ranging from 120 seconds to 600 seconds totaling 15 hours and 20 minutes in SHO narrowband using the Hubble palette, mapping sulfur II to red, hydrogen-alpha to green, and oxygen III to blue. Eta Carina is the large, yellow-tinted star left and up from the center. The mushroom-shaped object and dark area below it are the Keyhole Nebula.The exposure data were collected from December 2020 through May of 2021 using a Telescope Live CDK 24 Planewave telescope and a FLI PL9000 camera located at the El Sauce Observatory in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The exposures were registered, calibrated, normalized, and combined using Astro Pixel Processor 1.083.2 with color fine-tuning and magenta star halos removed in Adobe Lightroom Classic V.11.2.

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RA (center)	10h44m43s.831
RA (top/left)	10h47m13s.634
RA (top/right)	10h42m17s.769
RA (bottom/right)	10h42m10s.308
RA (bottom/left)	10h47m13s.324

Dec (center)	-59°47′20″.33
Dec (top/left)	-59°25′13″.39
Dec (top/right)	-59°24′46″.30
Dec (bottom/right)	-60°09′19″.83
Dec (bottom/left)	-60°09′44″.72

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