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Southern Witch's Broom Nebula

  • 14 sessions
  • 1,136 images
  • 88.75 hours

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The Southern Witches Broom Nebula

A fine filamenty piece of nebulosity on the borders of Eta Carinae with potential SNR qualities, though its origins remain uncertain. It's a fairly dim target so I needed to dump a fair bit of time into the Oiii which is probably as good as I'll get from B7 home. I'm still having issues with StarX eating some of the filaments but it's probably as good as it'll get for now.

Since you're not going to find it in any catalogues (that I know of) the coordinates are:
RA center: 10h04m02s.9
DEC center: -60°52′55″

This image has good context for its position relative to Eta Carinae https://app.astrobin.com/i/ybaj9k

WO Redcat 51, ZWO ASI2600MM, Antlia HaOiiiRGB and Proxisky UMi 17

Acquired in NINA 
400 x 300" xHa
623 x 300" Oiii
30 x 60" R
30 x 60" G
30 x 60" B
Total ~87 hrs

Processed in PixInsight with DeepSNR, BlurXT, StarX

Full res is on Astrobin https://www.astrobin.com/5vxatc/

Sessions

Date R G B H O
2024-03-26 7.75
2024-03-27 7.75
2024-03-28 7.5
2024-03-29 2.17
2024-04-01 4.67 2.75
2024-04-02 2.67 4.42
2024-04-08 0.33 6.58
2024-04-09 0.25 6.17
2024-04-10 0.42 6.75
2024-04-11 0.42 6.67
2024-04-13 0.42 6.92
2024-04-14 5.25
2024-04-15 1.0 6.42
2024-05-17 0.5 0.5 0.5
Total 0.5 0.5 0.5 35.35 51.93

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