Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Carina (Car)  ·  Contains:  Carina Nebula  ·  Foramen  ·  IC 2581  ·  IC 2599  ·  NGC 3255  ·  NGC 3293  ·  NGC 3324  ·  NGC 3372  ·  NGC 3496  ·  NGC 3503  ·  PK285-01.1  ·  PK285-02.1  ·  PK288+00.1  ·  PK288+00.2  ·  PK288-00.1  ·  PK288-02.1  ·  PK289-01.1  ·  PK290-00.1  ·  Part of the constellation Carina (Car)  ·  T Car  ·  The star p Car  ·  The star s Car  ·  The star t1 Car  ·  The star u Car  ·  The star w Car  ·  eta Car  ·  eta Car Nebula  ·  p Car  ·  s Car  ·  t01 Car  ·  And 3 more.
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Carnia Nebula Wide Field NGC 3372, George  Yendrey
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Carnia Nebula Wide Field NGC 3372

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Carnia Nebula Wide Field NGC 3372

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This is a wider field of view of the Carina Nebula to compliment my previous upload of an image of the core.  It from a telescope in Austrailia via Telescope.Live.  Like the previous dataset, this image is buil of one composed from several observations on file over the last two years.  The filter information is accurate in the technical details as is the telescope, camera, and mount information.  The acquisition date is not as data in the package provided spanned a period from 2020 to 2021.

In the Wikipedia link there is a long list of significant objects contained within the Carina nebula so it is worth following the wikipedia link to learn more about this object below our view to the south.

I have reprocessed the image in the latest two revisions to improve the image, and manage the star field to allow the Carina Nebula to be the primary focus.  The original image is still on line for comparison.  The last two versions are a true wide field of the region then a narrower FoV to put focus entirely on the Carina Nebula.

Carina Nebula - WikipediaThe Carina Nebula or Eta Carinae Nebula (catalogued as NGC 3372; also known as the Great Carina Nebula) is a large, complex area of bright and dark nebulosity in the constellation Carina, located in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way galaxy. The nebula is approximately 8,500 light-years (2,600 pc) from Earth.The nebula has within its boundaries the large Carina OB1association and several related open clusters, including numerous O-type stars and several Wolf–Rayet stars. Carina OB1 encompasses the star clustersTrumpler 14 and Trumpler 16

Trumpler 14 is one of the youngest known star clusters at half a million years old. Trumpler 16 is the home of WR 25, currently the most luminous star known in our Milky Waygalaxy, together with the less luminous but more massive and famous Eta Carinae star system and the O2 supergiant HD 93129A. Trumpler 15, Collinder 228, Collinder 232, NGC 3324, and NGC 3293 are also considered members of the association. NGC 3293 is the oldest and furthest from Trumpler 14, indicating sequential and ongoing star formation.The nebula is one of the largest diffuse nebulae in our skies.

Although it is four times as large as and even brighter than the famous Orion Nebula, the Carina Nebula is much less well known due to its location in the southern sky. It was discovered by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in 1752 from the Cape of Good Hope.The Carina Nebula was selected as one of five cosmic objects observed by the James Webb Space Telescope, as part of the release of its first official science images. A detailed image was made of an early star-forming region of NGC 3324 known as the Cosmic Cliffs.

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Carnia Nebula Wide Field NGC 3372, George  Yendrey