Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Carina (Car)
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RCW 58 - a Wolf Rayet ring nebula, Kevin Burfitt
RCW 58 - a Wolf Rayet ring nebula
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RCW 58 - a Wolf Rayet ring nebula

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RCW 58 - a Wolf Rayet ring nebula, Kevin Burfitt
RCW 58 - a Wolf Rayet ring nebula
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RCW 58 - a Wolf Rayet ring nebula

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RCW 58 is an expanding ring nebula caused by the explosion of the central Wolf Rayet star.   There is lots of interesting structure in this southern target, very interesting to capture.
This is a narroband HOO image, with RGB stars.  There is some Hydrogen-alpha in the background as well, which is faint but I have tried to preserve.

This was an extremely difficult target.  The Hydrogen was reasonable to capture, but the Oiii was almost non-existant and despite many hours of capture I can barely get enough to put the image together.

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