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NGC3372 - The Carina Nebula, John Dziuba
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NGC3372 - The Carina Nebula

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NGC3372 - The Carina Nebula

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This is the Carina Nebula shot from a Bortle 3 site.  This was an early evening target while I waited for my other planned targets to gain altitude.  The target's apogee was only 40 degrees off the horizon, and seeing conditions were not the best as the daytime heat was radiating off the terrain.   The data however was super clean and relatively easy to process.

I recently brought my Tak FSQ85 and RST-135 mount with me on a trip to Australia where I spent two weeks chasing clear skies.  It turns out that's a very hard thing to do in Australia this year due to the effects of La Nina on the weather patterns.  I did manage six nights of imaging over the two weeks at two different sites in Queensland.  During the trip I focused on targets that are either not available or too low on the horizon to image well from home.

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NGC3372 - The Carina Nebula, John Dziuba