02052025-NGC3324_Gabriela_Mistarl_Nebula

🌀 Lost in the clouds of NGC 3324...

 

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What looks like a celestial sculpture is actually a chaotic star-forming region, 7,500 light-years away, where gravity, radiation, and time carve cosmic masterpieces. The “face” you see? It's a nebula's nod to poetry — Gabriela Mistral, immortalized in stardust. ✨

 

🔭 SHO narrowband composition (SII, Ha, OIII)

📍 Carina Constellation

RA: 10h 37m 20s | Dec: -58° 37′ 00″

🌠 Apparent Magnitude: ~7.4

 

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Lights: 104x300" (Halpha, OIII, SII)

Telescope: Planewave CDK24

Camera: QHY 600M

Filters: Astrodon

Processed: Pixinsight

Date: 06/04/2025

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