The Eta Carinae Nebula (NGC 3372) in Carina

[Octane]

Hey all,

A little late to the party on this perennial favourite. It was data I captured a few months ago but only got around to processing recently.

Bit of a quickie -- just 34 hours of data this time. Have wanted to image this in narrowband for so many years, and, finally got to do it this year in between other projects.

This is the culmination of 34 hours of data (30 hours of narrowband for the nebula and 4 hours of data for the stars) imaged over 20 nights during April and May.

Larger version available here (http://octane2.ddns.net:81/astro/ngc3372.html).

Comments, critique, etc., welcome.

Thanks for looking!

H

[LewisM]

That'd be pretty darned good there H!

The red stars middle left look like HAL :)

[Placidus]

Wow! Extremely deep, and action packed! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[PKay]

Stunning!

[strongmanmike]

Well, that was certainly worth the wait Humayun, I bet!? :thumbsup:

Very enjoyable view, great effort and result with all aspects handled well.

Mike

[gregbradley]

That's a great Carina image Humi. Good work.

Greg.

[Camelopardalis]

That's a beauty H, well done :thumbsup:

[rogerco]

superb image of a beautiful part of the galaxy, great work :)

[RobF]

Very very very very nicely done H :)

[batema]

That's a beautiful image. Lovely.

[Peter Ward]

Nice to see you sticking with the program H. My only critique would be the dark rings around some stars.

The FSQ is such a nice 'scope. Well done :thumbsup:

[Atmos]

Love it H! Very deep and rich in colour :)

[Slawomir]

Awesome work Humayun, really well done!

[troypiggo]

Lovely mate. Composition and colour well balanced as usual.

[jwoody]

A very nice image, congratulations. 34 hours of data!
Jeremy

[RickS]

That's an excellent image, H :thumbsup:

[billdan]

Very good H, mesmerising in fact, I couldn't take my eyes off it.

[rustigsmed]

Excellent stuff H and I really like the framing too

Russ

[Octane]

Lewis,

Thanks, mate. :)



Mike and Trish,

Appreciate it. :)



Peter,

Thank you!



Mike,

Thanks. I've been looking forward to capturing this and processing it in narrowband for so long! Feels good to get it out of my system, for this season, at least. :D



Greg,

Many thanks!



H

[Octane]

Dunk,

Thanks, sir. :)



Roger,

Thank you!



Rob,

Ta. :)



Mark,

Thanks!



Peter,

Being short focal length, I'm kind of stuck to the usual suspects (apart from the mosaic work that I'm also doing at the same time... and, no idea when I'll ever get around to processing the data. :O).

The dark rings would be my lacking PixInsight-fu blending LRGB with bloated narrowband stars. Need more practise. :)



H

[Octane]

Colin,

Thanks, mate!



Suavi,

Appreciate it. :)



Troy,

Cheers!



Jeremy,

Thanks! Yeah, the 34 seems small to some of my recent other stuff. I like going in for the long haul; the idea being that I don't have to use any noise reduction routines on the data.



Rick,

Thank you, sir!



H

[Octane]

Bill,

Thank you. I'm thinking I might make a metallic print of this one. Should turn out quite vibrant. :)



Russ,

Appreciate it. I labour over composition. Having such a wide field of view is both a blessing and a curse (especially when it comes to such extended objects such as this one).



Thank you, so much, all, I'm very appreciative of the reception this received. :)

H

[multiweb]

Missed that one. You've been busy. Huge field. :thumbsup:

[Andy01]

Nice one H, it took me 6 panels and 4 months to mosaic the whole darn thing, and there you go getting most of it in one frame, lol :lol:
Looks good (except maybe for some funky stars.)
lovely colour palatte too :thumbsup:

[Paul Haese]

Nice colour balance H. Nice detailing too.