Eta Carina: Into Darkness (Mathew Ludgate)

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

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Eta Carina: Into Darkness

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Eta Carina: Into Darkness

After what feels like a summer of cloudy nights, its nice to finish a new image! I set up this APM scope last year and have been using it on a few longer term projects that I will hopefully finish this year and decided it was time to do some fine-tuning of the setup. So Eta Carina was selected as the target, and it was a nice change to be able to actually see some nebulosity on single subs compared to what I have been imaging. Eta Carina reminds me of the misaligned warp core seen in Star Trek: Into Darkness, and you can imagine the massive amount of energy being pumped out that has sculpted all of the dust and molecular clouds in the area. I tried a few different framing options and settled on a crop to 1.65 x 1.35 degrees of the main core. I also took some 5 second exposures of the homunculus to not blow this out completely.

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RA (center)	10h44m55s.83
RA (top/left)	10h50m27s.50
RA (top/right)	10h50m06s.16
RA (bottom/right)	10h39m39s.64
RA (bottom/left)	10h39m30s.12

Dec (center)	-59°43′12″.5
Dec (top/left)	-60°31′01″.8
Dec (top/right)	-58°53′51″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	-58°54′26″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	-60°31′39″.5

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