Gabriela Mistral Nebula

Open cluster NGC 3324 and emission nebula IC 2599, together nicknamed "Gabriela Mistral Nebula" after the Chilean poet. Situated in the northern outskirts of the Carina nebula ~35 light-years wide and 7500 light-years away in Carina. Stellar winds and radiation from stars in NGC 3324 have shaped the hollow structure seen.

SHO false-color image from narrowband data 15h 50m (31:32:32x600s) from CHI-1 telescope, a Planewave CDK24 with FLI PL 9000 camera, and Astrodon SHO 3nm filters, situated in the Rio Hurtado Valley, Chile. Part of the telescope.live telescope network. Taken on multiple dates March-June 2020-2022.

Processed in PixInsight. The colors are modified Foraxx palette to have a little more balance in blue. Stretched heavily with GHS to bring out as many details as possible, noise reduction and details enhanced via constructing a synthetic luminance. Star colors via SPCC in narrow band mode with Photon Flux as white reference.