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NGC 3372 Eta Carina Star and Nebula.
I was waxing lyrical to myself at the amazing detail of the Homonculus,just Stunning
But the Southern lobe seemed fainter than I had seen it before,
could have been overwhelmed by the brightness of the star.
the Jets that sort of make up the arms of the (little man) Homonculus could be seen.
The Eta Carina star was the brightest I have ever seen in a telescope, Normally it
Seems to be not quite star like but soft to fuzzy, but this night it was incredibly sharp
Brilliant!
The eyepiece used 6mm Radian plus 9mm TMB which also gave fantastic views.
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Hi all,
In February I had the
Link Here from which the above quote is derived) moved from the Observation Reports forum to this forum as to encourage feed back on the brightening of the Star Eta Carina, unfortunately none was forth coming
My intrepid Astro buddy Suzy did some investigating and has come up with this Data from AASVO
Thanks Suzy
http://www.aavso.org/ql/results?auid...=2455577.93245
The observations in this data for the 25/01/11 corresponds with my observations for that period
and the data really proves that sure enough Eta Carina is truly brightening.
Another site worth looking at is
http://etacar.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar/
Which has been presented on other posts on this subject.
I encourage everyone to keep observing Eta Carina as often as possible by both Optical and visual means as this dynamic star may one day just give us that big surprise we are all waiting for
Please report any observations of Eta Carina on this thread.
For further information on what we have been discussing so far, including helpful links, please look
here in the "Radio Astronomy and Spectroscopy" forum.