Eta carina 10 inch scope. Back into astroimaging

[tornado33]

Hi all. Its been a long time between images. Finally keen to get back into it. Still manually guiding but with a new ZWO guide cam. I use a virtual reticle on the laptop over a guide star and manually guide it with fast and slow buttons for the RA drive and a manual slow motion for the DEC on the old Sampson AOS mount.
This is a 4x10 minute shot of Eta carina neb with the old modded 350D and UHCS filter.Calibrated in IRIS and then Photoshop.
Scott

[alan meehan]

nothing wrong with that Scott well done

[strongmanmike]

Aaah good'ol Scotty...locked in an early 90's time warp :lol:...at least ya havent got ya eye ball glued to the guide eyepiece :eyepop: :lol:...nice result on a rarely imaged target none the less :rolleyes: :thumbsup:

Mike

[SimmoW]

Wow, manual guiding? That sounds fun, and a good result!

Now, start doing narrowband, say 60 subs at 30 mins each and I'm sure you will break some kind of record!

[RickS]

That's dedication for you. Well done!

[kinetic]

Nice work Scott,
Great to see a name from the past in the imaging section again. :)

Steve

[atalas]

Hi Scott

Nice to see you at It again :thumbsup: good work.

[Ryderscope]

A good result and I commend the effort. Oh how we long for the good old days :)

[tornado33]

Thanks all. I have tried my hand at narrowband HA imaging, though with the uncooled camera still limit subs to 10 mins, the great thing about my OAG is its pickoff prisim is outside the diameter of the focusser so sees unfiltered light. The only bummer is the stars arent round due to coma, would be great if someone made just a small segment of a large coma corrector to put in front of the guide cam something like this is simple but very effective http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1980MNRAS.191..777W :)