Carina Nebula (Maroun Habib)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Carina (Car) · Contains: IC 2602 · IC 2714 · IC 2872 · IC 2944 · IC 2948 · NGC 3199 · NGC 3293 · NGC 3324 · NGC 3372 · NGC 3532 · NGC 3572 · NGC 3576 · NGC 3603 · NGC 3766 · Part of the constellation Carina (Car) · Southern Pleiades · The star θ1Cru · The star θCar · The star λCen · The star ο1Cen · The star ο2Cen · eta Car nebula · lambda Cen nebula

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Carina Nebula

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Carina Nebula

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Carina nebula (NGC 3372), Running Chicken nebula (IC 2944), Southern Pleiades (IC 2602) and co.

Eta Carina is by far the brightest nebula in the night sky, it makes the Orion Nebula look so small and dim* in comparison. It covers 3° of apparent size, making 6 times the size of a full moon and 3 times of the Orion Nebula.

Southern Pleiades is one of the closest open clusters to us and 70% fainter than the Taurean Pleiades (as a total apparent magnitude). It is the third brightest open cluster following the Hyades, Pleiades, Alpha Persei and Coma.

The Running Chicken nebula also known as Lambda Centauri nebula, a very strange nebula nickname for a star forming nebulous region, and a clear evidence that astronomers are bad at poultry

*: No part of Eta Carina is as intense as the Orion Trapezium cluster, but surface brightness takes the whole nebula into calculation not just the maximum nebulous brightness of a specific region. The same exposure settings on Orion Trapezium would have blown the highlights in the image.

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A set of 60 frames each of 90s, F/2.4 , ISO800

Canon 6D mod UV-IR cut

Samyang 135mm F/2.0

Tracked by Vixen Polarie

Stacked, calibrated and pre-processed using PixInsight

Color calibrated with Adobe Lightroom

Location: Mar Boutrous bita3 l Atacama

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