I hope it doesn’t sound too boastful for me to say it, and to some degree it is a matter of personal taste, but I think this is just gorgeous, and the best astrophoto I’ve produced to date.  It is, of course, from the remote observatory in Australia, and is not visible from up here in the north.  Eta Carina is quite bright, and large – about 4 times the size of the Orion Nebula.  It’s a mixture of emission, reflection, and dark nebulosity, as the best ones often seem to be. For this type of target I would typically […]