NGC3293 - Open Cluster in Carina

[Djt]

Thought I would share this. NGC329 , the Pendant nebula, is found n Carina, in the southern most corner of the Gum 30, hence the nebulosity. 

As objects go, it gets picked up every so often because the cluster is around 10 million years old, but has a combination of both young blue (sadly bludgeoned to death in processing) along with the odd M type star in orange, so it becomes interesting from the point of view of Cluster evolution. ESA did a thing on this last year with some interesting publicity images coming out.

Details

This is HaRGB, with Ha at 20 mins subs (4 hours)  and RGB at 5 mins (too long frankly), around 2 hours each filter imaged with an Sbig STL6303E, through a GSO RC8 mounted on an AP900 and subsequently  hacked to death in PI. I am very impressed with how Pixel maths blends Ha with R and manages to retain smaller star colours. Loss of blue in the main cluster of stars is  soley the fault of the keyboard operator.

Thanks for looking

[ultranova]

very nice cluster, and thanks for the info

Paul