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The Carina Nebula

The Carina Nebula (also known as the Great Nebula in Carina, the Eta Carinae Nebula, NGC 3372, or Caldwell 92, as well as the Grand Nebula)
is a large bright nebula that has within its boundaries several related open clusters of stars.
Some papers generally refer to this as the Carina Nebula.
Eta Carinae and HD 93129A, two of the most massive and luminous stars in our Milky Way galaxy, are among them.
The nebula lies at an estimated distance between 6,500 and 10,000 light years from Earth.
It appears in the constellation of Carina, and is located in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm.
The nebula contains multiple O-type stars.

The nebula is one of the largest diffuse nebulae in our skies.
Although it is some four times as large and even brighter than the famous Orion Nebula, the Carina Nebula is much less well known, due to its location in the southern sky.
It was discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751–52 from the Cape of Good Hope.(WIKI)

Imaged with the 16" f3.75 Dream Astrograph.
Apogee Alta U-16M camera.
HAL-RGB image

Ha - 40 min ,
Lum - 20 min
RGB 10 minutes each

(Total of 1:30 HRS)

Imaged from Tivoli farm in Namibia June 2012.

Apogee USB/Net

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