NGC 3372 - Eta Carinae Nebula

[Nicola]

An evergreen object for you down-unders, a dream for us in Italy.

This is an image shot from the wonderful Namibian skies. I’m very satisfied by the rendition of this nebula. As in all very bright nebulas (like M42), it is always difficult to render all the image dynamic range. I was already very glad with the first imaging of it in 2007, but my setup and skill improved and the second time I succeeded to render it much better.
I hope you like it, comments and criticism always welcome!

Old Image: http://www.skymonsters.net/immagine.php?img=ngc3372-web.jpg

New Image: http://www.skymonsters.net/immagine.php?img=NGC3372_2.jpg

Clear skies
Nicola

[h0ughy]

very Nice - love the field of view and the colours, v sharp stars

[Craig_L]

Lovely image Nicola - beautiful detail. Love the star field, sharp to the edges. Colours are really nice - lovely reds. My only comment is whether you could get more detail out of the nebula with a little more contrast in the mids? But that's a matter of taste. Look forward to more.

[bloodhound31]

Definite improvement! Good work!

Baz.

[alan meehan]

Lovely image Nicola ,great field of view,also like some of your shots on your website,well done
AL

[mswhin63]

Great shot lovely Smooth detail really works for me. :thumbsup:

[John Hothersall]

Lovely improvement and beautiful colours achieved and fits field perfectly.

John.

[Nicola]

Thanks a lot to all of you who replied.

Craig: you are right, contrast could be boosted on the midtones. Coming from film astrophotography I can't get used to higher contrast, all my processing ends up always that smooth :)

[strongmanmike]

This is a spectacular image Nicola, excellent in all respects :thumbsup:

Amazing nebula

Mike

[marc4darkskies]

This sure is a very often imaged object here, but this is an uncommonly good rendition of it!! It's certainly much better than your original version. Great FOV and colour. Well done!

Cheers, Marcus

[Paul Haese]

Much nicer process, colour is really nice and stars look great.

[Nicola]

Thanks also to strongmanmike, marc4darkskies and Paul Haese

@marc4darkskies: I'm very glad to give you a new "perspective" of your very much imaged object.

[iceman]

Really nice image Nicola, Welcome to IceInSpace!

[Nicola]

Thanks a lot iceman, for both the image and the welcome! :)

[FlashDrive]

Hey....That's an awesome shot . :thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

That's a great Eta Carina image. Very nicely done.

Greg.

[Nicola]

Thanks also to FlashDrive and gregbradley! :)

[Leonardo70]

Nicola...great great image..

A dream also for me...

[Nicola]

It is a dream that can easily become true, you must do that at least once.

Nicola

[atalas]

Nicola,great shot! love the contrast!

[Hagar]

Very nice Nicola. Lots of detail in this very big target and so many stars.

Nice image.