Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Carina (Car)  ·  Contains:  Carina Nebula  ·  IC 2599  ·  NGC 3293  ·  NGC 3324  ·  NGC 3372  ·  Part of the constellation Carina (Car)  ·  The star s Car  ·  The star t1 Car  ·  The star w Car  ·  eta Car Nebula
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Eta Carinae Nebula, Yungshih Lee
Eta Carinae Nebula
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Eta Carinae Nebula

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Eta Carinae Nebula, Yungshih Lee
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Eta Carinae Nebula

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This image of Eta Carinae was taken using a prototype of William Optics' new RedCat 61 with a new patented inner focuser. Many thanks to William Yang, founder of William Optics, to lend me this beautiful scope to test.  I didn't want to create a new telescope in the database as this is not yet a mass-produced scope yet so I chose RedCat 51II as the scope for this image. I think the quality of the scope speaks for itself in this image. 

I was lucky to be able to shoot Eta Carina from the Northern hemisphere.  The nebula shows up very briefly each night in certain seasons in mid-Taiwan. The highest altitude it reaches is about 5 degrees.  I was told by a fellow astrophotographer that happened to set up beside me at the dark site that I could get it about this time.  I aimed my telescope at it just at the right time and was able to capture 11 3-minute images to make the shot.

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