Carina Nebula

[Craig_]

The recent clear nights have broken a long imaging drought for me, its been a busy few months with precious little time for imaging unfortunately.

These nights haven't been without their challenges of course :)

Here's about four hours on NGC3372 Carina Nebula. I had to discard a lot of subs due to guiding issues, in reality probably have more like 6-7 hours.

Esprit 120
EQ6-R
ASI533
ZWO UV/IR Cut

[PKay]

Hi Craig.

Your result is quite good.

Don't forget to practise your processing skills.

Plenty of good stuff out there, youtube etc.

Well done :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

+1 very nice rendition. Beaute field and good details. I like your stars too. :thumbsup:

[Zubenel]

Your graduation out of beginner AP is due!😉✅👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻:eyepop:

[Startrek]

Craig,
A lovely image of Carina
Well done !!!
Martin

[Mickoid]

I'd be very happy with that, nicely processed too. :thumbsup:

[Craig_]

Cheers all. Adding some time in Ha tonight (well, Ha and Oiii with a dual band filter, but will try taking the Ha as a luminance layer for this.)

Got my OAG working finally too :lol:

[AdamJL]

how do you add the duo-band as a luminance layer? Very interested to hear that.

It's a fine image, regardless. Lovely star colour

[Startrek]

Adam,
Here ya go ....attached
Ivo Jager the developer of Startools gave me a procedure on the Startools forum for processing Duoband data ( synthetic luminance with narrowband) from a OSC camera
It works ok but no where near as good as true narrowband from a mono camera with all the filters
For processing Nebula with Duoband data , the Super Structure module works really well
Cheers
Martin

[Baobab]

very nice, but can I have whatever you smoking so I get such colors with my 533mc too? :) Like it a lot but for now I am trying to keep my results as "real" as possible - art will come later I hope.

[Craig_]

Thanks. I've yet to actually attempt it, but APP has the functionality.



Not sure what colours you deem "real" for this nebula, but I didn't really touch them much. The final stack came out with a strong green cast (which is not real), introduced either by light pollution or the filter, I am not sure. I corrected the green cast using the star colour calibration tool in APP and got these colours. It's a colour camera using a broadband filter, so aside from removing the green cast I really didn't need to do much to the colour.

[Baobab]

Interesting, maybe because I used light pollution filter and wasn't using APP this time, just plain stacking and stretching in Affinity my colors came quite different. Maybe I should give it a quick try in APP what colors I'll get from there.

[AdamJL]

You ripper, thanks Martin! I love your PDF guides :)

Will give that a go shortly, cheers