Ancestors

Toot

Written by cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️ on 2025-01-25 at 22:31

After doing my main 6 hour imaging runs on the Large Magellanic Cloud overnight, there was still about half an hour of sufficient darkness after to snap an other target

The Eta Carina nebula is starting to get high enough to have a go at with the new scope, so that's what I did. This is 46 minutes of data with the hydrogen/oxygen filter on the camera.

I love the fine structure in the outer regions of the nebula, and the dark sculptures that stick out from the edges of the central dust lanes. Chances are, those dusty structures contain newly forming stars.

The big bright star near the middle is Eta Carina. Voted more likely to explode in your lifetime than Betelgeuse for years now ;-)

The whole lot is about 10,000 light years away. For comparison, the Orion Nebula is only about 1,400 light years away. Despite that, the Carina nebula is brighter in the sky.

[#]astrophotography #Astrodon #space

:wo_redcat_61: :zwo_duo_filter: :zwo_294mc: :zwo_am5:

=> View attached media

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from cafuego@misanthrope.social

Descendants

Written by Bob Tregilus on 2025-01-28 at 01:10

@cafuego Very nice!

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from elaterite@fosstodon.org

Written by Julien :ve: 🔭:python: on 2025-01-28 at 03:10

@cafuego Fantastic!

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from jdlbt@techhub.social