| Type | Bright Nebula |
|---|---|
| Magnitude | 3 |
| Size | 120' x 120' |
| RA (2000) | 10h 45' 8.6" |
| Dec (2000) | 59° 52' 0" S |
| Constellation | Carina |
| Description | ! great neb, Eta Carinae |
Andrew Cooper
13 Mar 2010 Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
15cm f/5 Newtonian, Primero @ 22x
A wonderful object, Large! Bright! a roughly round nebulous region almost 2° across, a very dark rift cuts through the center of the nebula with an abrupt 90° turn part way across. ηCar itself is a bright obvious star, notably orange, in the brightest region north of the rift, the whole complex is obvious to the unaided eye in the center of the southern Milky Way
Andrew Cooper
14 Apr 2007 Pu'u Kuainiho (map)
76mm f/6 APO
Very bright, very large, an extensive nebula complex over 2° across, visible naked eye, the nebula divided into north and south lobes by a broad dark band, ηCar itself sits in the center of the brighter northern lobe, notably orange, mag. 6.1, the entire region makes grand sweeping, from NGC3293 2° northwest of ηCar, to NGC3532 3° northeast
Andrew Cooper
5 Apr 2007 Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
15cm f/5 Newtonian, Primero @ 35x
Large! Bright! conspicuous to the unaided eye, entirely fills the 1.5° field of the 6" at 35x and more, wide dark lanes cut through the center with extensive mottling of the brighter areas, ηCar itself is the brightest star in the field, notably orange, in the middle of the bright northern quadrant of the complex, one of the best nebulae in the sky, I see more every time I look at this celestial wonder
Drawings, descriptions and CCD photos are copyright Andrew Cooper unless otherwise noted, no usage without permission. Use for non-profit and educational reasons is generally given on request.
Positional and some physical information is from the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Additional object data from the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France.
The Digitized Sky Survey was produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government grant NAG W-2166. The images of these surveys are based on photographic data obtained using the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain and the UK Schmidt Telescope.
Dark nebulae data from E.E. Barnard, A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way. Ed. Edwin B. Frost and Mary R. Calvert. Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1927
Object descriptions of Rev. Webb from Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes sixth edition, Rev. T.W. Webb, 1917, edited by Rev T.E.Espin.