Interesting object near X Car

[bojan]

While browsing through my older images, I found one from 2017, taken with Canon 400mm FD + (modded) 450D, stack 16x60 sec, ISO1600.
The area is around X Carinae (1st image, at the upper left corner), and on the right side of the frame interesting object is visible, so I thought it may be good to explore it in greater detail.

Last night, I took the stack 73x15 sec, with C11+FR, Canon 60D (modded) @ISO12800.


I couldn't find more info on this nebula (not that I REALLY tried..), except on this link, it is visible on the right side of the frame: https://astropixels.com.au/gallery/W...r_20220615.png.

[Tinderboxsky (Steve)]

Hi Bojan

It looks like NGC 3247. Here is an EAA observation of mine from May 2022 of the same object. ED103S scope with ASI385 OSC - 40 X 15.0s subs for 600s total exposure and Gain200

The bright orange star to the lower left is HD 90289. X Carinae is just outside the FOV of my image.

[Drac0 (Mark)]

Not NGC 3247, wrong side of Carina. It's nebulosity surrounding the open cluster NGC 3572, situated between the Wishing Well Cluster & Statue of Liberty. I believe the actual nebulosity is GUM37 (The Southern Tadpoles).

Cheers,
Mark

[bojan]

Hi Steve,
It is not NGC 3247, it is something else, see attached chart (my frame is marked as red square on the right)..

It seems there are many similar objects in that area..

[Dennis]

Nicely captured and processed.

The object looks like it might be a Nebula according to the SIMBAD Database.
[H53] 54 -- Nebula
Other object types: GNe ([H53])
ICRS coord. (ep=J2000) : 11 12 00.0 -58 48 00

Here is a crop from Aladin Lite via SIMBAD.

Cheers

Dennis

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Best I could find on astrobin, is this above the southern tadpoles?


Also from Stellarium area where the yellow target is mid bottom right in the squared area.

[bojan]

Hi Denis and Nik,

Thank you for the effort, yes, this is the object, marked with arrow.. [H]53.
On second picture, the left is my frame from 2017, then Aladin in the middle, then frame from weekend (right).