ETA Carina season over?

[Martin Pugh]

Well, there hasn't been an ETA Carina image posted up for a few days, so perhaps I can tweak interest in a narrowband image of this nebula.

http://www.martinpughastrophotography.id.a u/images/EtaCarina_NB.jpg

nice and bright, so only 9 hours this time round. SHO palette was used.

Tak FSQ106N, SBIG STL11K, Astrodon 5nm Ha/SII and 3nm OIII.

Cheers
Martin

[TrevorW]

FAntastic :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[troypiggo]

Hoooooooooooooly COW! What a field, colours, depth!

[Peter Ward]

The plethora of SII data has me stumpted...and somewhat green (or is that yellow? :) ) with envy...

But nice to see you sticking with the program so brilliantly Martin!

[Octane]

That is so utterly, ethereally beautiful, it's ridiculous.

You have the skills to pay the bills.

H

[Stevec35]

Well that's just magical!

Cheers

Steve

[MrB]

Yowzer! :eyepop:

[Rigel003]

Just beautiful, Martin. I t gives an entirely different perspective on such a well known object. LOL at only 9 hours.

[multiweb]

Superb vista Martin. :thumbsup: As Peter said the Sii came through real strong. Well done. Just one thing I noticed is the Oiii channel in places has a very abrupt layering noticeable in the gabriella mistral bit and a few other places. Did you use a masking technique for the blue bits? :question:

[strongmanmike]

Rather interesting view and colour palette Martin, looks quite good. There have been a few good renditions of this area this year and it's amazing how many different ways this iconic nebula can be presented. Yours reminds me of a strange alien creature rearing up ...is this part of a mozaic by chance?

Mike

[Paul Haese]

I like the scheme Martin, although I would really like to see a tiny touch of mottled greens. Other than that I think the image is very nice.

[gregbradley]

A fabulous image Martin. It would be even better with some rgb stars.

Greg.

[Bassnut]

I think you get the prize for the smallest astro pic ever posted on IIS :thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

I'm blown away here. You've given it a whole different perspective.
Thanks so much for posting.

[Martin Pugh]

Hello folks and thanks for the comments.

Mike - no, not part of a mosaic.

Marc - thanks for pointing this out. This area of the image did not actually get any special treatment, but that OIII is sharply cut off, so I will need to address that.

So, I need to:
Fix up the Gabriela Mistral nebula
add RGB stars
fix another star someone has emailed me about
and add back in the mottled green, I actually took out!

No problem! Always value the feedback

cheers
Martin

[multiweb]

Que? You're the narrowfield expert. :P



How do you layer the Oiii and did you use a ratio of Ha into your Sii channel?

[astronobob]

A major Piece of eye poppin Art M-art-in :P

[Nicola]

Absolutely jaw-dropping, well done!

[scopemankit]

Stunning image!

[stevous67]

Incredible detail Martin. Some good feedback has been given, but only for you to reach absolute perfection in this capture.

I will be saving this image to help hunt down new narrow FOV's to shoot one day.

Cheers Martin,

Steve

[DavidTrap]

Very impressive.

Waiting on my extra NB filters to arrive from OPT!

DT

[alpal]

I like that but I would have preferred a little more processing work
on the contrast in the brighter areas e.g.
the key hole nebula no longer stands out in all the brightness.

The stars are so small & tight - it's amazing.

[2stroke]

Well that makes my new desktop background :) One of the top 5 i've seen this year :D

[Martin Pugh]

Thanks everyone
I will get to fixing up those tweaks.

cheers
Martin