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Object Info
Object	The Keyhole Nebula and Homunculus around Eta Carina
Type	Emission Nebula
Centered at:	RA: 5h 46m 19s Dec: -02°22'18"
Constellation	Carina
Size	200 light years
Distance	8000 light years
Age	The brighter part of the Homunculus is from an event in 1843.
Image Field	Approx 12 by 8 arcminutes
Notes	Click here for external information about The Homunculus
Taken from:	Tin Shed Observatory Gold Coast, Queensland Long - Lat = 153:23.54E - 27:56.8S
On:	Ha - 12th March 2004, RGB - 26th march 2004

Image Info
Telescope	Celestron C11 @ f17
Focal Length	4800 millimetres
Telescope guiding	AO7 - Self Guided.
Telescope control	Astrometric Sky Walker II
CCD camera	SBIG ST-10xe
Camera cooling	Regulated Thermoelectric
Camera pixels	2184 x 1472 x 6.8um
Image scale	0.3 arcseconds per pixel
Processed with:	Mira A/P, Maxim DL, AIP4Win, CCDSharp, Photoshop
Exposure times	Homunculus Hydrogen Alpha = 40 x 1 second exposures Keyhole Hydrogen Alpha = 15 x 10-second exposures Homunculus Colour R,G,B = 22 x 1-second images through each filter. Keyhole Colour R,G,B = 14 x 30-second images through each filter. Total exposure time for image = 10.6 minutes
Image Calibrations	All raw images Dark Subtracted and Flat Fielded.