Constellation Q - please hel me to identify the stars

The following photograph was taken in Tr 16 Sector TE-P c6-2 on orbit of second moon of the third gas giant in the system (which is I suppose hardly relevant to the main question anyway).
As you can see in the photo, there is an oddly looking constellation, i call Q because of it's shape.
Could anybody help me to identify these stars or at least direction in which I could follow to identify them?
Or maybe anyone knows of a method of a method to check which star is visible in the field of view?
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"Tr 16" is short for "Trumpler 16", the name of a real-world star cluster. My first guess would therefore be these are the bright O-class stars of the Trumpler 16 cluster itself.
 
What I managed to find out from nowt is that to see them I need to have Eta Carina nebulae behind and face more or less towards the bubble.
The very bright Yellow "thing" in the photo above is one of the planet of the system itself. Here are some more photos I managed to make:
First - as you can see, Calactic core is on my right and I face more or less towards the bubble
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I have Eta Carina nebulae slightly below and behind my back
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I managed to spot a few stars "around"?
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Any Idea how to pinpoint them more acurately?
 
The following photograph was taken in Tr 16 Sector TE-P c6-2 on orbit of second moon of the third gas giant in the system (which is I suppose hardly relevant to the main question anyway).
As you can see in the photo, there is an oddly looking constellation, i call Q because of it's shape.
Could anybody help me to identify these stars or at least direction in which I could follow to identify them?
Or maybe anyone knows of a method of a method to check which star is visible in the field of view?
Those are very bright stars that can be very far away (hundreds if not housands LY). There's no easy way to identify where the star you're looking at is - checking where galaxy plane is and where other galaxies are can help to orient youself on galaxy map. I usually try to select some close star as jump destination there, on glaxy map and check whether I got the direction right. I adjust until I hit the right vector and then I just look along this line.

You're somewhere near Eta Carina Nebula, and I vaguely remember there was a dense string of bright stars towards the Bubble.
 
Locking on V440 CARINAE and CPD-57 3518 shows that these are totally invisible from Tr 16 Sector TE-P c6-2

I believe these are indeed the stars belonging to the Trumpler 16 cluster
I'm pretty sure I pinpointed most of them on the map
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They form a smudged line when you look at a map, but when you look at them from a specific angle they form a ring, this is how they look when I moved a little bit closer to this cluster and this is the shot taken from Tr 16 Sector DG-M a24-0
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So thanks for the tip, it seems to be it
 
Of course, out there in the real universe, these stars are buried deep inside the Eta Carina Nebula - and indeed, along with Eta Carinae itself, are the primary cause of the nebula and the reason why the nebula is visible at all (light from the Trumpler 16 Cluster stars is illuminating the nebula,

In ED, nebulas do not need bright stars near them or within them in order to glow - making that happen would be far too computing-power-intensive for a game that didn't really need it. Nebulas glow all by themselves, and any real-world nebulas with real-world bright stars inside them have to have the stars added manually. Eta Carinae, the Trumpler 16 Cluster and the Eta Carina Nebula all line up when seen from Sol system, but they aren't in roughly the same position in space in ED, as they should be; rather, they are strung out over 1000 LY apart. This is because the statistics pages FD imported from real-world star catalogues had different distance estimates for the stars and the nebula, and no-one checked to see that the distances matched. Too late to change it now, of course.
 
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