Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Carina (Car)  ·  Contains:  Carina Nebula  ·  NGC 3372  ·  eta Car Nebula
NGC3372 - a closer look at the Eta Carinae Nebula, AstroFckups

NGC3372 - a closer look at the Eta Carinae Nebula

Revision title: NGC3372 - Eta Carinae Nebula

NGC3372 - a closer look at the Eta Carinae Nebula, AstroFckups

NGC3372 - a closer look at the Eta Carinae Nebula

Revision title: NGC3372 - Eta Carinae Nebula

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Approximately 7500 light years from earth and with a radius of 230 light years, it's four times larger than (and even brighter than) the famous Orion Nebula M42.

Taken without a light pollution filter under Bortle 6+ skies, I was happy to capture detail of both dark and light nebulosity, and some detail of the "globlets".

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Title: NGC3372 - Eta Carinae Nebula

Description: I pushed the saturation and star colour too far in the first revision, so in this new revision I didn't push it as far and it has a more natural feel with pink to red pastel nebulosity but still some nice contrast.

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NGC3372 - a closer look at the Eta Carinae Nebula, AstroFckups