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Old 14-11-2007, 03:37 PM
DougAdams
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Originally Posted by Straylight View Post
With the nebula filter on, the bright red star at one end of the Eta Carina nebula turned an angry red - quite striking - sort of like Sauron's eye.
I used the Sauron analogy a couple of weeks ago when writing up an observation of Hind's star in Lepus. Just this drop of deep orange/red sitting in space.

Eta Carina is fantastic in larger scopes - the Homunculus is amazing.
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