Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Centaurus (Cen)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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Crux_Carina, Rodney Watters
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This wide field view covers 25 degrees from the constellation of Crux (Southern Cross) on the left hand side of the image to the Eta Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) on the right hand side of the image. There are a number of other objects visible as well including the coal sack nebula, the dark nebula adjacent to the Crux.

The image was taken with a Canon 50mm lens and is comprised of 20 subs of 180 seconds taken at ISO 800. The image took some additional processing in Photoshop to bring out the details and it is apparent that this area of the sky needs to go deeper (longer exposure times) to fully bring out the detail that is there.

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Crux_Carina, Rodney Watters