NGC 3372 Carina Nebula
First reasonably clear night in a long long while so decided to image Carina for the first time this summer
Location : South Coast NSW Bortle 3 skies
Seeing : average
Wind : 5 km/hr
8” f5 Bintel GSO newt
Skywatcher EQ6-R Mount
Canon 600D stock with Baader coma corrector
Orion 60mm guide scope and ZWOASI120MM guide camera
54 x 3 minute dithered guided subs
25 x darks
ISO 800
PHD2 guiding ( best guiding so far on this mount 0.65 arc sec )
Dithering set to medium on each sub ( mount recovered extremely well from a dither )
Goto and tracking EQMOD, StellariumScope and Stellarium
Frame Focus and Capture - BYEOS
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools V1.5
Main image - Carina Nebula
Second image - Keyhole Nebula
Thanks for looking , comments always welcome
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