In a dark night of Amboseli National Park, Kenya, the southern Milky Way is photographed over the smaller peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. Known as Mawenzi (the moon in Swahili) it reaches 5,149 m high. The Great Carina Nebula is the red cloud at top. The nebula gets its red and purple hues from hot hydrogen gas. It sits about 7,500 light-years away in the constellation of the same name. It is also home to one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way galaxy, Eta Carinae. Although Carina Nebula is some four times as large and even brighter than the famous Orion Nebula, it is much less well known, due to its location far in the Southern sky. On its lower right is a young open cluster of blue stars, known as the Southern Pleiades or IC 2602. Right above the horizon is the famous southern constellation Crux or the Southern Cross, next to large dark nebula known as the Coalsack.