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Eta Carina Nebula (HSO), Göran Nilsson
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Eta Carina Nebula (HSO)

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Eta Carina Nebula (HSO), Göran Nilsson
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Eta Carina Nebula (HSO)

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The Eta Carina Nebula is arguably the best known nebula among the southern hemisphere's Milky Way Nebulae. It is four times larger and even brighter than the Orion Nebula, but being on the southern hemisphere it is less well known.

This is Ha, Sii and Oiii data from Telescope Live at the El Sauce hosting facility at 1500m elevation in Río Hurtado, Coquimbo Region, Chile. Ha is 5 x 10 minm, Sii is 3 x 10 min, and Oiii is 5 x 10 min. So not much exposures but noise was low (no NR applied) and this 8" f/3 telescope is clearly a light-bucket, here aimed at a bright object.

I started off with Ha in the red channel, Sii in green, and Oiii in blue, but then tweaked the colours quite a bit in PS towards a more RGB like image.

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Eta Carina Nebula (HSO), Göran Nilsson