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Old 05-02-2018, 07:24 PM
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Eta Carina Under Supermoon

For the Super Blue Blood Moon I decided to go to Heathcote to escape the mosquitoes that plague my Melbourne residence, escape the expansive tree-line and go to where it was forecasted to have pristine clear skies. In the end the first two points came true, no mosquitoes at my rural property and no trees in the way. It was however reasonably clouded out until 2am so I was relegated to watching it with binoculars and not photographing it for the most part.

At 3:30 am I decided I may as well photograph something so I figured I'd go to a big bright object in an attempt to counter the big bright moon behind me. Bring on NGC 3372.

What has resulted is a dithered non calibrated image with basic stretching and saturation applied. Processing time... Less than 5 minutes

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