Yet another Eta Carina I Know!!

[Hagar]

Eta Carinae Nebula..... After looking at the magnificent photo of this nebula posted by Peter Ward I decided to give it another go while I wait for my new scope ta arrive.
The temprature in the observatory was -1 degree C so cooling wasn't a problem.

I actually shot 9X 20min exposures and IP on an auto grade kept 8 of them. No darks or other calibration files were used. Too bloody cold out there to take them.

I was very happy with the performance of my G11 after I cleaned and regreased the mount last week. Guiding was very good, in fact way better than the last image I took with it.

Seeing was not as good as I had hoped with some atmospheric shimmer, even with 1/2m of snow on all the hills around me.

Telescope Vixen VC200L at 1800mm
Camera QHY8 cooled OSC
Guided using PHD and QHY5 through a ED80.

Happy with the result tonight but will see tomorrow.

Thanks for looking.

[bloodhound31]

Doug, that's a great image mate. There is a dust bunny on the left that draws the eye straight to it, but it looks like cloning it out would be much less fuss than applying flats.

Beaut colour.

Baz.

[RB]

A lovely capture Doug, I like the colour too, similar to what I got a few months ago.
I think it's very pleasing.

Well done mate.

[Hagar]

Thanks Barry. I didn't notice it at first but have fixed it in the light of day.



Thanks Andrew, The longer subs have made a real diference to the S?N ratio and made processing a lot easier. Glad you liked it.

[Tamtarn]

What!! -1 degree glad we were up your way last week and not this week :cold: It was great to catch up with you Doug and thanks for your time we really appreciate it :thumbsup:

Long subs worked well on this one. We can see the improvement with each image now. Well done!!

Look forward to seeing more

[danielsun]

Long subs no darks and no noise, the super cold temp with the cooled QHY8 really paid off.
Lovely shot there Doug.



Cheers Daniel.

[Hagar]

Ah but at -1 at least the sky was nice and clear.
Great to catch up to you both while you were up this way.



Thanks Daniel, Yes the cooled camera certainly makes a big diference when shooting longer exposure images.