Eta Carinae, Keyhole Nebula, and Carina Nebula

Eta Carinae, Keyhole Nebula, and Carina Nebula
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Eta Carinae, Keyhole Nebula, and Carina Nebula

There's so many objects in this field, there's almost too many to count. First, there's Eta Carinae, a highly luminous hyper giant star with a mass of 100-150 times that of our Sun and a luminosity about 4,000,000 times the Sun's. Next, to the right of Eta Carinae, is the Keyhole Nebula which is a small dark cloud of cold molecules and dust with a diameter of about 7 light-years. Just to the right of the Keyhole Nebula is the d
Defiant Finger, a small boy globule. Above and to the right of the Keyhole Nebula at about the 2:00 position is the open cluster Trumpler 14, with a diameter of about 14 light-years. Above and slightly to the left of Trumpler 14 is a gas pillar known as Mystic Mountain which is about 3 light-years in height.
These are just a few objects in this image which is a blend of RGB and SHO subs @ 300s with a total exposure time of about 5 hours.
Hope ya like it!
Tom
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Telescope
CHI-1 Planewave CDK24
Camera ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Camera
FLI ProLine PL9000
Location ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Location
El Sauce Observatory, Chile
Date of observation ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Date of observation
January & February 2021
Filters ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Filters
Astrodon LRGB 2GEN, 3nm H, S, O
Processing ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Processing
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