Around Eta Carina (RGB added)

[Atmos]

At the moment I am throwing an hour here and there in the early morning (4am onwards) and have managed 1.5 hours on Eta Carina in Ha. I had some kinda nasty tilt going on so I've just worked on some crops on the top right of the frame where the stars are actually round!

Processing has been a slight deconvolution and some contrast enhancement. Areas a bright enough that noise reduction hasn't been needed, love big bright objects :)

These are at full res and there doesn't seem to be any loss over Tif or JPEG.

[strongmanmike]

Nice Up Yours nebula there Col :thumbsup:

Mike

[Atmos]

Thanks Mike, you have just identified the whole reason I processed this region when at a mates place last night ;)

[Placidus]

Wow! The left hand image shows the outer H-alpha "beard" or "lion's mane" around Eta Carinae very clearly, as well as a nice Fickle Finger and Thor's Hammer. The right hand image is gritty and needs another ten minutes exposure, but magnificently sharp, showing both the bipolar HH jets beautifully. Top stuff. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Camelopardalis]

Nice one Colin :thumbsup: good to see it with a tad more focal length than I get, loads of detail in there :)

[RickS]

Nice detail, Colin.

[Atmos]

Thanks MnT, you've seen a lot more in there than I have :thumbsup: I got as far as the Finger, sniggered and moved on ;)



Not much more than what you get! If you drizzle under average seeing you should be able to get something very similar :)

[Flugel88]

Wow there is some superb detail in there tiny little stars around the peanut looks real deep.

[marc4darkskies]

Great pics Colin! Very nice detail, esp in the Eta image! :thumbsup:

PS: what focal length are you operating at?

[Atmos]

I was actually quite surprised at what was there, I took 36 minutes of RGB last night, seeing was not crash hot but I am curious to see how it'll all blend together :)



The seeing was really good for what I get in Melbourne, got nothing on what others get at a higher altitude than 79m though ;)
Shooting at 677mm, not long by any means but small pixels at 3.8 microns. Pixel scale of 1.158"/pixel. It's comparable to an 8" F/8 with a 11002 sensor in image scale.

[Atmos]

Took 12x60s RGB last night under some FAR less than optimal conditions so you'll have to excuse the MASSIVE blue and green stellar rings :P

After having another look at Peter Wards image, it shows just how far away I am! I'd need to get 20 hours of pretty good seeing to get close to that!

[SimmoW]

That's ace resolution Colin, though this website doesn't do it justice I'm sure. I did do Eta with the 1600 awhile ago but it's still in my backlog of processing jobs. Horsie next!