NGC3603 and NGC3576 HA and colour (updated!)

[rcj]

Hi all,

This is a brand new image just bagged minutes ago. Never took this b4 as well, and it looks quite interesting, with two nebulae optically close together but is actually spatially far apart in space. Discovered by Herscell in the 1800s and comprises of NGC3630 (left) and NGC3576 (right) with some Bok globules in NGC3576. This is located "to the left" of Eta Carinae in the Singapore/Malaysia perspective.

HA only: 3x20 minutes (Pentax 75SDHF)

Bag colour components soon!

[cataclysm]

Oh Boy! Your CCD is really working overtime down under..... LOL...

[swat_pup6433]

i am soo going there soon!!

[Airconvent]

nice remus! looks like aliens or ants depending on how you look at them.

[Tachyon]

I go for aliens! Those with big cranium!

[rcj]

cranium?????



it's clear now, waiting for sun to set, and continue to grab colour data....

somehow ngc3576 looks somewhat like a snail, or a ferris wheel, or some strange insect....nevertheless it seems rather under-rated, when it is just in the vicinity of Eta Carinae.

As for the acquisition, guiding is not too good nowadays, optocoupler breaking down in one direction, donno why, maybe it is a continuity issue. Still not working, so nowadays I cannot do a calibration as once it is done, the previous vector calibration elements would be lost. For now I can only shoot objects within the same declination as eta carinae....this object for one.

Yeah, swat_pup, looking forward to you guys coming!

[Jeremy]

That's a cracking one for detail, Remus. The more I look, the more I see!

Go well!

Jeremy

[rcj]

Thanks Jeremy! The area seems to be filled with curiosity!

Here's the colour version from CBD.... just wishing for more deep data now...