Wide field Carina and surroundings

[AstroTanja]

A wide field view of Carina and surrounding constellations; Crux (The Southern Cross), Musca, Vela, Volance, Chamaeleon and Centaurus.
The 2 nebulae visible: Carina & Running Chicken Nebula.

For higher resolution, check it out on Astrobin: http://www.astrobin.com/95966/

Interesting space stuff includes:
Pearl Cluster NGC3766
Gabriela Mistral Nebula NGC3324
Open Clusters NGC 3114 & 3532
The Coal sack dark nebula (Southern Cross)
The Dark Doodad (Dark nebula)
The Southern Pleiades


5x 180 sec = 15 minutes
ISO800
Canon60Da
24-70mm F2.8 LII / @24 F4
Celestron CG5

Acquired: Nebulosity
Processing: PixInsight & PhotoShop CC

Calibration Files
30 darks
100 Bias

30 March 2014

[RickS]

Very nice, Tanja!

[Rod771]

Nicely done Tanja :thumbsup:

Our friends north of the equator don't know what they're missing :)

[alpal]

Hi Tanja,
That's very nice -
I took a similar shot in my flickr photos.

cheers
Allan