The Carina Nebula (also known as the Eta Carinae Nebula, NGC 3372) is a large bright nebula that has within its boundaries several related open clusters of stars. The nebula lies at an estimated distance between 6,500 and 10,000 light years from Earth. It appears in the constellation of Carina.
The wide field image consists of 6 hours worth of 3 minute shots ISO 1600 taken with a Canon 6D and 200mm f2.8 set at 5.6 mounted on a guiding telescope.
High resolution images can be found :
https://www.flickr.com/photos/134809...posted-public/
The up close image consists of 5 hours and 15 minutes of red (1h 45m), green (1h 35m) and blue (1h 55m) images.
Taken with a TEC 140mm on Astrophysics1100 using a self guided SBIG 8300m.
High resolution images can be found :
https://www.flickr.com/photos/134809...posted-public/
Advice welcome.
Mark