Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Carina (Car)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3496  ·  NGC 3503
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NGC3503 emission nebula and NGC3496 open cluster in Carina, Guillermo (Guy) Yanez
NGC3503 emission nebula and NGC3496 open cluster in Carina
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NGC3503 emission nebula and NGC3496 open cluster in Carina, Guillermo (Guy) Yanez
NGC3503 emission nebula and NGC3496 open cluster in Carina
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NGC3503 is the central nebulosity in the image and NGC3496 is the open cluster at the bottom. This southern sky object is usually eclipsed by the beauty

of its neighboring targets NGC3372 and NGC3324. It is fair to say that this object usually goes unnoticed but deserves some credit.

NGC3503 and NGC3496 in Carina

Televue NP101is + SBIG ST8300M

Astronomik Ha/CLS/OIII filters

Mount: Losmandy GM8 with Gemini

Capture: MaximDL 5.23 and PHD2 guiding

Pre/postprocessing: Siril v0.99.8.1

Postprocessing: GIMP

Ha/Ha/CLS/OIII RGB compositing

CLS: 18 images 20 darks and 15 flats

Ha: 24 images 20 darks and 15 flats

OIII: 16 images 20 darks and 15 flats

@ 300 sec exposures each

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