[madwayne (Wayne)]

Well it has been a while coming between a lack of motivation due to some really bad weather over the past 3 or 4 months, but here is 290 minutes of a pretty busy part of Carina. The image has been acquired over three nights in two different locations. The first batch of data was taken at Wollondilly River (Southern Highlands) last Sunday night and the balance was taken at SASI's semi dark site at Waterfall in far Southern Sydney over the past two nights. The frames were taken as 6x10 and 46x5 minute lights with flats, darks and bias frames.

EQ6 Pro, prime focus Orion Star Shoot Pro/Tak FSQ106N, guided with QHY5 mono/ED80. Images acquired, guided and stacked in Maxim DL with some post processing, levels and curves, in PS CS2.

This is by far the deepest image I have taken and I'm pretty happy with the way it has turned out and I welcome feedback, particularly on the post processing side of things as I really struggle in that department.

Regards
Wayne