My quick crack at carinae

[bmitchell82]

taken as the dawn gradient was approching carinae

ED 80 gold tube imaging
Modded 40d imaging
2x 10min no calibration files

114mm DSE newt guiding
DSI guiding
EQ6 running SBS

http://s700.photobucket.com/albums/ww3/brendanmitchell1982/?action=view&current=Eta-Carinae-Nebula-complex-3mb.jpg

[jjjnettie]

Nicely done.

[TrevorW]

Nice one Brendan spot on guiding by the looks of it

I yet to redo this with the 8" RC to compare the differene to my ED80 shot

[bmitchell82]

Ill let you in on this secret the EQ6 holds onto the ed 80 and newt 100% better than the 10" :) thanks all for your kind words

[telecasterguru]

Brendan,

Pretty good for 20 minutes. What does SBS stand for?

Frank

[bmitchell82]

SBS = Side By Side i whipped it up on friday in the workshop before i went out on saturday, ill have photos up in the ATM section this week

[Hagar]

This image has come up very nicely Brendan. Do you have anywhere to post a high res version to take a look at. The compression doesn't do your image any favours.
Great looking stars,colour,guiding and overall processing.
Well done.

[bmitchell82]

thats a 3mb version how high did you want it?

[rogerg]

Nice shot, nice colour :)

Dawn 'eh... all-nighter... nice. lots of pics? :)

[Astrobserver99]

nice image with spot on guiding....looks like it was taken from a dark sky site?

[bmitchell82]

Yep roger it was another all nighter, though the start of the night was a bit furry, the wind was howling though so i backed the fagma upto the scope (within a 50cm of the tripod) and opend the boot for protection against the elements worked well in my opinion. using the SBS setup i think i had a problem with balance in the DEC which caused some greif! but ill do some testing and run it with the H alpha in town over the next few weeks.!

Yes Astro, it was taken close to 2 1/2 hrs from perth its a very dark site!

[DavidU]

Good one Brendan ! Plenty of contrast.
Interested in your SBS setup.

[Hagar]

Hi Brendan, well it might have been 3 MB when you uploaded it but it is only 533KB when you look at the size of it andthe stars show up very undersampled and quite square when you try to blow it up a bit.
I only wanted to have a look at the core. Homunculus.

[bmitchell82]

No problems doug, ill have to do it when i get some time. Im also going to be having another go at it with the 10" using the 13nm astronomik Ha filter as soon as this weather lets up a bit :) till then thanks all once again!

[zipdrive]

nice 10min tracking on the eq6:thumbsup:
what iso was this at?

[bmitchell82]

I was running iso 800 the whole night, sometimes i drop it down to 400 or 200 depending on the brightness of the object just to help with noise. and yes the eq6 is good for 20 min guided shots. so 10 is a walk in the park

[Manav]

Nice one Brendan! :thumbsup:

If you ever start taking DSO astro requests I'd like to add witch head nebulae on the list.

[bmitchell82]

Thats already on my list of things to attack! too many to do and not enough time!