~ Bright new nova in Carina ~
Taken by Noeleen Lowndes on April 15, 2018 @
Stardust Observatory Leyburn Australia
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Date Taken: 2018:04:25 13:07:33
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I was at my Stardust observatory for a few days this past new Moon and took some beautiful wide field images of our dark southern skies, I was hoping to captured some images of the bright new nova in the constellation of Carina…and I’m so happy to say that I caught it :-)
This stunning area of the sky has many thousands of stars, but this new nova was very bright and stood out ever so clearly next to another pale yellow star near the Eta Carina nebula.
I took the images with a Canon 70D camera and a Canon 70-200mm F2.8 lens with the ISO at 1600. The camera was piggybacked on a tracking 10inch Meade LX200 telescope in the early hours of the 15th April 2018. There were ten 3-minute images with corresponding dark frames stacked in DSS and processed in PS CS4. The image presented has been cropped to show the Nova and the Eta Carina nebula.
Photographer's website:
http://www.mystardustobservatory.com
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