Eta Carina nebula

It was time to return to a favourite of southern hemisphere imagers, the mighty Eta Carina nebula, cataloged as NGC 3372..

 

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Location: LMDSS, Heathcote, Victoria, Australia

Date: shot over the Australia Day weekend 26 - 29th Jan 2017.

Scope: Takahashi 130 TOA NBF refractor, focal length 1000 mm

Camera: mono Finger Lake Instrumentation ML16200 with a Loadstar X2 on an Astrodon MOAG off-axis guider.

Acquisition:

Software: Sequence Generator Pro

27 x 180 sec on an Astrodon Lum filter

17 x 180 sec each Red, Green, Blue Astrodon filters

Sensor temp: -30 C

Done