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My cousins were visiting and last night was clear here in Nelson so we started with the lovely young crescent moon, and via a few other stops (orion, tuc 47 , tarantula) we arrrived at Eta carinae.
And wow, the seeing was exceptional (and my telescope collimation was for once good). The homunculus nebula was clearly visible around and to one side of the star). I've never seen it so clearly. I agree, it seemed distinctly red. Which I though was a bit odd (not having read skysurfer and ngcles posts prior to the observation), since it is a very massive blue star, and had to recheck that I was really pointing the telescope in the right direction and not showing my cousins something completely wrong! So I'm glad to read that others think it looks red.
Haven't taken any spectra of it though. :-(
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