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The Carina Nebula NGC 3372, George  Yendrey
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The Carina Nebula NGC 3372

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The Carina Nebula NGC 3372

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This is an image of the central core of the Carina Nebula, NGC 3372.

This nebula is below my southern horizon, but I was able to acquire a data set from a telescope in Chile via Telescope.Live.  It is my first time to utilize/process a remote data set; it was not a custom data set, but one built 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.

The Carina Nebula in its entirety is much larger than the area captured in this image of central core region.  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.

An almost completely off-topic note:  The Carina Constellation is mentioned repeatedly in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie: Dead Men Tell No Tales.  However, looking at the tattoo on Captain Barbarossa's arm and on the cover of the book he left with his daughter when he abandoned her as an infant and you will find little resemblance to the actual Carina Constellation.  The constellation in the movie does show a very close resemblance to the Scorpius Constellation with the same distinctive trident' star formation at one end.  IMO - YMMV.


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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The Carina Nebula NGC 3372, George  Yendrey