Eta Carinae Autoguided

[Tamtarn]

Taken on 5-12-07 our first chance to image Eta Carinae Nebula with autoguiding

Pentax DSLR

A stack of 6 light frames 5mins each ISO800 ICNR

Higher resolution :- http://barb.david.1.googlepages.com/home


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[mick pinner]

very nice guys, patience and practice certainly pays off, well done.

[iceman]

Fantastic Eta! I love this time of year when we start seeing these again!

Well done, great to see the Pentax doing good work!

[beren]

:thumbsup: Top work, looks great on my screen colour wise and sharp

[leon]

Nice one Barb and Dave, everything seems to be working in your favor, very pleasing to the eye, well done.

Leon

[Garyh]

Nicely done Guys!! :thumbsup:
Colors look spot on and nicely processed!
Everyone years ago said these pentax cameras were no good for astroimaging but you have certainly turned that upside down!

[h0ughy]

YEAH one for the Pentax!!!!!!

[EzyStyles]

beautiful guys. colours looks great. tracking looks great also. and from the pentax! alot of photon there.

[erick]

Yes, that is nice, David and Barb! And, yes, great to see a Pentax hard at work! :)

[danny]

Great Colours and the defination of the dark matter through out the nebular looks, well ... dark.:thumbsup:

[dugnsuz]

That's a fantastic effort Barb and Dave, as is the M42 on your homepage too! In fact the recent images on your page are all very fine indeed - the loops of nebulosity in your Tarantula crop had me drooling!

I can echo the above about the Pentax - well done.
Autoguiding will allow you to push the data from your camera more than ever before.
Cheers
Doug:thumbsup:

[jase]

Lovely work Barb and David. Colour balance looks good. This image is an accolade to you both and clearly defines how far you've come. Looking fowarding to more. Well done.:)

[Tamtarn]

Thanks so much for the positive feedback everyone we really appreciate it.

We bought the camera in February to try widefields then progressed to prime focus in April then autoguiding in November.

We're pleased that we have been able to get quality images with the Pentax.

Now that we are autoguiding we have been very pleased with the 5 minute exposures.

We have yet to capture more than 5 or 6 subs so from now on we will try 10-15 subs and also longer exposures and see what sort of quality we get pushing the Pentax further.

We hope it encourages other IIS members with Pentax cameras to try DSO Imaging :)

[Alchemy]

a well exposed and presented shot, youve proved the tracking and processing is working well, it looks like all deep sky objects are now open for taking, look forward to more.

[RB]

A beautiful Eta full of detail, perfectly guided, focused and composed.
You've done a wonderful job in processing it, having a very nice histogram.

Congratulations to you both.

Well done
:thumbsup:

[Tamtarn]

:lol: :lol:



I think the focus was better on this one Andrew because I used a Hartman Mask that I made using Baz's (Bloodhound) specs from his website.

Thanks for the comments by the way

David

[2020BC]

You guys are producing some nice images. Looks like that Pentax is alright! I'd like to see a closer look at this pic.:thumbsup:

[spearo]

very nice guys!
well done
frank

[danielsun]

Wow guys, that's excellent!!!:eyepop:And not bad for a Pentax too!
Just imagine how much better if you had used a Canon 350D!!!:lol::lol:


Just kidding of course;)

Well done guys!:thumbsup:

[Ric]

A lovely image Barb & Dave, the colour and detail are spot on.

Great work.

[Tamtarn]

Thanks for taking the time to comment Bill : Frank : Daniel and Ric we appreciate it




Hey Daniel we're pondering over a 400D at the moment.

Wonder if the Canon will produce better than the Pentax :lol::lol::whistle::whistle:

[StarLane]

Mate thats a great shot of the Eta Carinae Neb. Excellent dynamic range and colour.