Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Carina (Car)  ·  Contains:  IC 2581  ·  NGC 3247  ·  P Car  ·  PGC 101322
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NGC 3247 and its neighbourhood, Claudio Tenreiro
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NGC 3247 and its neighbourhood

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NGC 3247 and its neighbourhood, Claudio Tenreiro
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NGC 3247 and its neighbourhood

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First approach to the region of NGC 3247, full of stars and gaseous regions.
I used photometric colour calibration in order to optimize what really should be the orange - reddish colours. The quite bright emission nebula is too dominant and makes a nice match with the open cluster IC2581.
On the top of that, there are many more DSO in there, like the Westerlund 2, Collinder 220, Nebula VdbH 36 and the Planetary Nebula PN G284.1-00.7 (or MR 22), among other objects.

I wider image of the region is found here by Michel Lakos, https://www.astrobin.com/392063/?nc=&nce=

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