Eta with newish setup -been a while!

[Garyh]

Hi Everyone,
It`s been a while between posts but after testing out my new wide setup, I thought I share this one. Hasn`t been a good season for getting long exposures but the other night managed to get 31 x 3 min of Good old Eta-Carina at a nice wide 400mm with a Equinox 80 and flattener. Actually quiet happy with how the flattener worked! not perfect but pretty close! :)
Combining done in Imagesplus then the usual photoshop tweaks.
The only thing I would like on the Equinox is a heavier duty focuser, really strains with the cooled 40D which comes in at around 1.2 kgs.
Sorry about the jpg compression had to go real low with all those stars!
cheers and thanks for looking..:thumbsup:
Gary

[Ross G]

Hi Gary,

Sharp and detailed from corner to corner.

Very nice colours and composition.

A great photo.

Ross.

[gregbradley]

Very nice Gary. Its good to see some new images from you.

Greg.

[multiweb]

Colours look terrific. That'd be great to post a link to a high res version.

[Ken]

Looks great very sharp, Gary are you using the Orion reducer flattener?
Clear skies Ken.

[h0ughy]

its nice to see a good shot of eta again.

[Garyh]

Thanks Ross, Greg, Marc, Ken and Houghy! It came out rather nicely for shortish subs, and the full res version looks very nice, didn`t even do any star reduction like I usually do..

Ken, Did a lot of research on the Equinox and the Orions plus other incarnations and the Televue 0.8x (trf-2008) seemed to give the nicest results, like all televue stuff it`s worth every cent!
Thanks guys :thumbsup:

[mill]

Very nice and i would recommend turning the camera a tiny bit so the whole of Carina will fit in :thumbsup:

[allan gould]

Nice one Gary, I havnt imaged eta for quite a while but it's always a great image to test equipment on. Looks very good to me.

[Stevec35]

Nice one Gary. I hope the one I posted yesterday turns out as well when I do the colour.

Cheers

Steve

[Garyh]

Thanks Martin, Allan and Steve! Was too lazy to compose the pic just plonked on the camera!
Your pic looks sweet as Steve, shall be a corker when complete!
thanks Guys!