NGC 3372 Carina Nebula Keyhole Reprocessed

[Startrek (Martin)]

Reprocessed a Carina Nebula image I captured in late May
I used a 2 x Powermate with my Canon 600D in the 8” f5 newt which effectively gave me an 8” f10 at 2000mm focal length
Just over 2 hours of data captured under a near full moon
Re Processed in Startools V1.5 Linear data set
Binned image to 50%
AutoDev
Cropped edges
Wipe, bumped up dark anomalies to 8
AutoDev re stretch again, bumped up shadow linearity
Deconvolution with mask 2.4 pixels
Sharpen 100%
HDR Optimise soft
Life 2 x gamma 15%
Colour Artistic aware, used a star mask and invert
Final Noise reduction 5.0 pixels

*** Had to reduce file size to upload so lost some fine detail


Comments most welcome

[PKay (Peter)]

Very good Martin

You can start giving lessons soon!

[Saturnine (Jeff)]

Certainly another beauty Martin.

[Kuz]

Another fine piece of work Martin . Definately got up and close with this one .

[Fernando]

Very beautiful. Well done Martin!!!

[xelasnave]

Excellent Martin.
Alex

[Startrek (Martin)]

Thanks one and all for your kind comments
These persistent east coast lows wrapping around the SE of the continent are forcing a lot of us indoors for the past month or so
However the rain is most welcome
Maybe some more reprocessing ahead ?

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Wow, that's expertly processed. Personally I would have wound the colour saturation up a bit, but that's probably just my preference. Outstanding image!

[Vk6 (Jake)]

Fantastic image ,thanks for sharing

[Sunfish (Ray)]

A close up of ET. A lot of details and colour fringes you don’t see from further out.

[Ant0nio (Tony)]

Hi Martin, that is an excellent image of the keyhole my friend.
Well done.
Cheers,
Tony

[Startrek (Martin)]

Thanks All
Appreciate your comments
I’m going to experiment further with using a 2 x Powermate with my 8”f5 newt on the brighter objects.The subs on this image were 4 minute at ISO800 and I did perform a maximum stretch ( AutoDev) in Startools, so in hind sight I could have push up the ISO to 1600 to give me more flexibility in processing
Thanks again

[LostInSp_ce]

Looks amazing Martin! I agree with Kevin the hotter stars might need a little boost in saturation but I'm being being very very picky on a subjective matter. It's a fantastic image. Well done again!