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Carina and Centaurus Nebulas Portrait (RF135 Ra).jpg
This is a portrait of the complex of nebulas in Centaurus and Carina in the southernmost portion of the Milky Way.
The nebula at bottom is IC 2948, aka the Running Chicken Nebula, with the embedded star cluster IC 2944, aka the Lambda Centauri Cluster. The "head" of the Chicken is the round nebula Gum 39.
Above the Running Chicken/Gum 39 pair is the pair of small red and magenta nebulas NGC 3603 and NGC 3579.
The main nebula above centre is the Carina Nebula, NGC 3372, with the smaller NGC 3324 nebula as a knot on its top or western edge. Above it is the small deep red nebula, NGC 3247. At upper right is the small light pink arc of the Southern Crescent Nebula, NGC 3199.
The bright blue star cluster at right is the Southern Pleiades, IC 2602; The fainter but rich star cluster left of the Carina Nebula is NGC 3532, the Football or Black Arrow Cluster.
This area of the Milky Way, while very bright, is rich in dust clouds that yellow the starfields.
This is a stack of 8 x 2-minute exposures, with the RF135mm lens at f/2.2 and the Canon Ra at ISO 800, on the MSM Nomad tracker. The lens had an URTH Night broadband night filter on it to improve contrast somewhat. Taken on a partly cloudy night March 6, 2024 from Mirrabook Cottage, near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia. Some frames were through thin clouds and I left those in the stack to add the natural star glows to bring out the brighter stars and their colours.
I shot this in portrait orientation as the region was rising into the southeastern sky and was oriented vertically like this with respect to the horizon.
The nebula at bottom is IC 2948, aka the Running Chicken Nebula, with the embedded star cluster IC 2944, aka the Lambda Centauri Cluster. The "head" of the Chicken is the round nebula Gum 39.
Above the Running Chicken/Gum 39 pair is the pair of small red and magenta nebulas NGC 3603 and NGC 3579.
The main nebula above centre is the Carina Nebula, NGC 3372, with the smaller NGC 3324 nebula as a knot on its top or western edge. Above it is the small deep red nebula, NGC 3247. At upper right is the small light pink arc of the Southern Crescent Nebula, NGC 3199.
The bright blue star cluster at right is the Southern Pleiades, IC 2602; The fainter but rich star cluster left of the Carina Nebula is NGC 3532, the Football or Black Arrow Cluster.
This area of the Milky Way, while very bright, is rich in dust clouds that yellow the starfields.
This is a stack of 8 x 2-minute exposures, with the RF135mm lens at f/2.2 and the Canon Ra at ISO 800, on the MSM Nomad tracker. The lens had an URTH Night broadband night filter on it to improve contrast somewhat. Taken on a partly cloudy night March 6, 2024 from Mirrabook Cottage, near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia. Some frames were through thin clouds and I left those in the stack to add the natural star glows to bring out the brighter stars and their colours.
I shot this in portrait orientation as the region was rising into the southeastern sky and was oriented vertically like this with respect to the horizon.
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