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Old 22-01-2011, 10:21 AM
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strongmanmike (Michael)
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Well it never stops huh?

There is a complex structure of ejecta shells around the unstable star Eta Carina that usually go over exposed in most images of the area.

I remembered that I managed to squeeze the details out of the famous Eta Carina twin lobe Homunculus Nebula, that Hubble made so famous, in an image done back in 2006 with the Starfire and Starlightxpress camera using shorter exposures. So...I have incorporated it in to the image, plus added a close up of the Homunculus itself.

So now I have framings of this well imaged region from 1.6deg X 1.2deg right down to a few arc min on the side

You can see the new images in the album here

Who knows what I will find next

Mike

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