NGC 3373 – Details of a Part of the Eta Carinae Nebula (Alex Woronow)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Carina (Car) · Contains: Carina Nebula · NGC 3372 · eta Car Nebula

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NGC 3373 – Details of a Part of the Eta Carinae Nebula

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NGC 3373 – Details of a Part of the Eta Carinae Nebula

NGC 3373 – Details of a Part of the Eta Carinae Nebula

OTA: PW17 f/6.5
Camera: FLI ML16803 CCD
Observatory: Deep Sky West, Chile

Exposures:
H: 11 x 1800 sec
O: 10 x 1800
S: 11 x 1800
Total Exposure time used: 16 hours
Image Width: 43.3 arc-minutes

Processing Tools:
1.   Commercial: PixInsight, Topaz Studio, Topaz Denoise, Topaz Gigapixel, Aurora HDR, Luminar Neo, 3DLUT Creator
2.   Pixinsight Addons: NoiseXTerminator, BlurXTerminator, StarXTerminator, Normalize Scale Gradient
3.   My Scripts: NB_Assistant, AC_Restar, Subframe Weighting Tool

Target Description:
This image portrays a portion of the Eta Carinae Nebula just south of that triple junction of dark lanes. One pixel in this image spans 5x10^11 km of nebula!

Processing Description:
The original HSO images were mapped to true color and calibrated photometrically, and the stars were removed. From that point forward, I adjusted the colors with differential stretches and color remapping to achieve the tons and hues I wanted for this image. Keeping the saturation low reveals more detail, although, admittedly, high saturation generally floats my boat!

Alex Woronow

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	8419365
PixInsight job	NJZRIWEU4GNF41R9OH67M89V93EI1N6X
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	10h46m43s.141
RA (top/left)	10h49m35s.820
RA (top/right)	10h43m51s.406
RA (bottom/right)	10h43m46s.738
RA (bottom/left)	10h49m38s.637

Dec (center)	-60°10′15″.80
Dec (top/left)	-59°48′32″.43
Dec (top/right)	-59°48′24″.79
Dec (bottom/right)	-60°31′43″.65
Dec (bottom/left)	-60°31′50″.87

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