NGC 3372 Carina Nebula Hubble Palette

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NGC 3372 or Eta Carina Nebula or simply Carina Nebula, is an emission nebula in the constellation of Carina. The picture was taken through narrowband filters and combined in a manner called Hubble Palette, named after the famous space telescope. Sulfur (SII) is mapped to red, Hydrogen (Ha) is mapped to green and Oxygen (OIII) is mapped to blue.

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Telescope Optics
Takahashi FSQ106ED

Mount
Knopf MK100 + Koch FS2

Camera
Moravian G3-16200

Filters
Baader RGB + Ha OIII SII

Integration Time
4x300s each RGB (for star colors)
19x600s Ha, 18x600s SII and 11x600s OIII

Date
June July 2016

Conditions
Excellent Good Sky Conditions

Remarks

Object Details

Type of Object
Emission Nebula

Constellation
Carina

Location
Kiripotib Guestfarm Namibia