Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Carina (Car)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3293
NGC 3293, Jan Scheers
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SHO-image of NGC 3293, a bright and young open cluster in the Carina constellation.
NGC 3293 consists of more than 100 stars brighter than 14th magnitude in a 10 arc minute field, the brightest of which are blue supergiants of apparent magnitude 6.5 and 6.7. There is also a 7th magnitude pulsating red supergiant, V361 Carinae.
NGC 3293 is around 12 million years old.

This image was captured with the Planewave CDK24 telescope and FLI PL9000 camera from Telescope Live in El Sauce Observatory, Chile.
Total exposure time: 180 minutes; 6 subs of 600s with each filter (SHO).

Processing with Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop CC with AstroPanel V4.2, Astronomy Tools, Topaz Sharpen AI and Denoise Projects 3 plug-ins.

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NGC 3293, Jan Scheers