Eta Carina “The Lost Relics”

Eta Carina is one of the best known and most prominent nebulae in the Southern Sky. There are many fine images of the nebula generally centered in the area around the keyhole. We thought it would be fun to do a close-up of a different section, so here is a dive into lesser-Known parts.

In what’s called the south pillars (of Carina) the most notable from Hubble space telescope image is HH666 it takes up most of the right side of the image and is quite faint and seemingly shadowed from the foreground gasses. The rest of these pillars have no names that I can find, and there are a lot of them.

See if you can find them.  The Seahorse Pillar, The Cat-a-pillar, Knifes Edge Pillar, Twin Peaks Pillars, The Tiny Pillar, The Beehive Pillar, Twin Pillars, Shady Mountain Pillars

Imaged in SHO RGB on our PlaneWave CDK 700 at Observatorio, El Sauce, Chile.
Image Processing: Mark Hanson and Mike Selby

Thank you,

 Mike & Mark