Southern Cross and Friends

A lot of interesting features packed in a small area of the sky centered around the Southern Cross.
- Alpha Centauri (brightest star, white, in the left), our closest neighboring star system.
- Coal Sack Nebula (dark cloud in the center), a cloud of dust and gas obscuring the light from what's behind, 500 light-years away.
- The Southern Cross, best navigational aid of the southern sky. Long exposures reveal the color differences. Gacrux is a very obvious red giant.
- Carina Nebula (pink patch in the right), one of the brightest star-forming regions in the sky.

EOS 5D Mark II astro-modified (full spectrum)
50mm lens

150 x 10s untracked exposures. Calibrated (bias, dark, flat) and processed with PixInsight.