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Eta Carina

Image taken at Clayton Bay, South Australia

Received an Honourable Mention in the David Malin Awards 2020

Equipment - 300mm OOUK AG12 Newtonian with Wynne corrector, SBIG STXL11002, Software Bisque PME

Guiding - Integrated filter wheel with guide camera

Software - MaximDL 6, Focusmax V4, SkyX, CCDautopilot 5

SIIHaOIIILRGB 6.6 hours

Processed in CCDstack 2 and Photoshop CS6

Notes: The great nebula in Carina, also know as Eta Carina nebula, display many points of interest in this image.

Located at a distance of around 8500 light years and about 460 light years in diameter in the constellation of Carina.

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