Carina Nebula

This was also taken with the 12" F8 Mak-Cass. It is a single 300 second shot taken at the end of the night during testing of the remote telescope operation. The image was taken in 38mph wind with minimal guiding. The mount was operating with precision encoders for essentially zero periodic error tracking. Eventually when we have done a sky modeling run, there will be no need for guiding on most image runs.

Rolando

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here is a center crop of the Carina nebula showing eta-Carina embedded in the tiny Humunculus nebula, which resembles a sliced tomato in H-alpha. This star is unstable and will eventually become a supernova, which will be visible in the daytime.

Rolando

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Hi Roland,
Wow...
Dave