The Carina Nebula and “The Lost Relics”

The Carina nebula is one of the best known and most prominent nebulae in the Southern Sky also known as The Carina Nebula , Eta Carinae Nebula NGC 3372as well as Great Carina Nebula .

It’s one of the largest diffuse nebulae in our skies. Although it is four times as large as and even brighter than the famous Orion Nebula, the Carina Nebula is much less well known due to its location in the southern sky.

This 2-pane mosaic also includes 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 gases. 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 Beehive Pillar, Twin Pillars, Shady Mountain Pillars, Stalagmite Pillar

Image Processing and Calibration: Mark Hanson

Data Collection: Hanson, Mazlin, Parker, Forman

Telescope1: 24" Planewave CDK f6.5 and L600 Mount, Camera SBIG 16803 Location: SWOS, El Sauce Chile

Enjoy, Mark