Eta Carina from SPSP

[Itchy]

Hi Everyone

I didn't really get much imaging done at the SPSP. I spent most of my time experimenting with a 2" barlow I bought on the Saturday morning. In any case, here is the result. I only ended up with 6 useable images, but the increased magnification is pleasing. I removed the Barlow lens from the barrel and screwed it directly onto my MPCC. It seems to work OK in this configuration.

Canon 300D (unmodified), Meade LXD55 SN10, MPCC, 2xbarlow, 6x2min, Calibrated in IP 2.75, other processing in Photoshop CS2.

Comment welcome as always.

Cheers

[EzyStyles]

very nice tony. did the colours came out like that or did you adjust it?

[Itchy]

I always do some colour adjustment, to achieve a resonable colour balance, but the colours are fairly close to how the camera recorded them.

Cheers

[Raydar]

Nice shot mate :thumbsup:

[RB]

Great work Tony, the colours are amazing, they seem to fluoresce and detail is great.
Nice shot.

[tornado33]

Nice shot, gee the MPCC is good isnt it, makes Schmidt Newtonians fantastic widefield scopes.
Scott

[Itchy]

Yea Scott, I was peasantly suprised to see how well the MPCC performed when using the barlow cell attached directly to it. It does a great job.

Cheers

[Striker]

Tony......whats with all the square and oblong stars...???????

Dont tell me it's guiding errors....time to auto guide I think....lol

Still love the detail.

[ving]

interesting colours :)
nice shot!

[Itchy]

Sheesh, Striker! You weren't supposed to look that closely!

It can't be guiding errors, because the subframes were unguided. :P :whistle: :D

I think it's a combination of tracking errors and not enough subframes to statistically remove them.

Also, this is the first time I have imaged with a focal length of 2 metres. That may have something to do with it too. I will do better next time, I promise.

Cheers

[iceman]

Nice job Tony, love the colours!