Eta Carina Nebula

[jjjnettie]

:) My best one so far.
Not sure about the colour though. Still playing around with the saturation levels.

19 minutes of subs (20 seconds :rofl:)
10 minutes at iso 3200 the rest at iso 1600.
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
Photo Shop CS3 and Paint Shop Pro 9.

iOptron Mini Tower
SW Pro Ed 80
Canon 20d

[JD2439975]

Considering the exposure time that's come up a treat Jeanette.

A little over sharpened maybe?
I like the saturation of the first, but the second catches a little more detail in the core.

I'd be happy with that effort if it was mine, well done.

[multiweb]

Cool Jeanette! :thumbsup: Now you're :rockband:

[Lester]

Looks good Jeanette.

[Tamtarn]

Really bringing out the detail now Jeanette. Fantastic job :thumbsup:

This is the simplest way to add colour.


Go to Image-Adjustments-Selective Color

You will see a bar at the top of the drop down window which has Red selected

Move the Cyan slider to the left this will add more red
Move the Majenta slider to the right this will add more Majenta

Just play around with each slider and adjust the tone to your taste


Then click on the colour panel bar and choose Majenta

Again move the Cyan slider to the left and the Majenta slider to the right adjust to tone.

You will get used to the strength of the colour added by pushing the sliders to the max then just slide back until you reach a suitable saturation.



Do the Selective Color early in your processing it's best not to push your Levels adjustment too far until you've added the colour first adjust Levels afterwards.

Hope this helps

Barb

[jjjnettie]

Thanks for looking everyone.
And thank you Barb for the advice.

[jjjnettie]

Justin, I see what you mean. The jpeg compression is horrible, the original is a lot smoother.

[JD2439975]

Ahh, that's what it was.
That 200kb limit just doesn't do justice to these piccies.

[jjjnettie]

I should really post the full res image off site.

[JD2439975]

Oh yeah, that would would be good, just to make more work for you.:D

[spacezebra]

Stunning JJJ.

Its a real pleasure to see your efforts paying off.

Cheers Petra d.

[ejcruz]

Great capture considering the exposure time, well done.

Cheers
Eddie

[scopemankit]

Super image jjj! What grat subjects we have in the Southern sky. Well done

[jjjnettie]

I'm getting a small taste of Northern hemisphere skies next week.:D
Pity I can't take the scope with me, but I'm taking the camera so I'll be happy to catch some wide fields.:thumbsup:

[g__day]

Very nice work Jeanette!