NGC 3603, NGC 3576

 

According to NASA's APOD site

"An intriguing and beautiful nebula, NGC 3576 drifts through the Sagittarius arm of our spiral Milky Way Galaxy.

Within the region, episodes of star formation are thought to contribute to the complex and suggestive shapes.

Powerful winds from the nebula's embedded, young, massive stars shape the looping filaments...........

............The two condensing dark clouds near the top of the picture offer potential sites for the formation of new stars.

NGC 3576 itself is about 100 light-years across and 9,000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina,

not far on the sky from the famous Eta Carinae Nebula.

Near the left edge of the picture is NGC 3603, a much larger but more distant star forming region."

 

The above image was taken from light polluted urban skies of southern Sydney.

Equipment set-up

Alluna Optics RC16

Alluna Optics AFFR

Above: At 100% resolution, near perfect stellar images can be seen at the centre

and extreme corners of the KAF16803 CCD field

with the Alluna AFFR F6.0 focal reducer/corrector

SBIG STX16803 and FW5

Software Bisque

Paramount PMEII

 

Data capture CCDops, Calibration MaxIm CCD, Processing PixInsight, Photoschop CC 2018

Copyright Peter J Ward 2018

Can you see all 26 grey scales above?