Eta Carinae Nebula (NGC 3372)

Posted 2007 February 16 @ 09:16

© 2006 G. Liakos

The beautiful, bright Eta Carinae region is visible as a bright section along the southern Milky Way between the Southern and False Crosses.

Sir John Herschel wrote: "There is perhaps no other sidereal object which unites more points of interest than this. Its situation is very remarkable, being in the midst of one of those rich and brilliant masses, a succession of which curiously contrasted with dark adjacent spaces (called by the old navigators coal-sacks), constitute the milky way in that portion of its course which lies between the Centaur and the main body of Argo.

NGC 3372 be seen from November to May and is number 44 on the Top 100 Deepsky Objects list.

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