The Great Carina Nebula, NGC 3372, with a cheap ZWO Seestar S50 smart scope (morrienz)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Carina (Car) · Contains: Carina Nebula · NGC 3372 · eta Car Nebula

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The Great Carina Nebula, NGC 3372, with a cheap ZWO Seestar S50 smart scope

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The Great Carina Nebula, NGC 3372, with a cheap ZWO Seestar S50 smart scope

A huge and very bright nebula in the southern sky about 8,500 ly distant. The very bright star is the hypergiant star Eta Carinae, one of the most massive and luminous known stars in our galaxy, about 4 million times more luminous than our sun. To the right of the star is the Keyhole Nebula. This is a mosaic of 987x10 sec exposures captured with my cheap ZWO Seestar S50 smart scope (50/250mm refractor) over about 4 hours on one night from my fairly dark (Bortle 2/3) rural backyard in New Zealand, with the Seestar's dual-band narrow band filter in place. Stacked and resolution increased using drizzle in Astro Pixel Processor, then processed in Pixinsight. I also have big, expensive scopes and mounts, but am enjoying the little Seestar.

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