Hi all,
Clear skies on Saturday night in Melbourne, so I managed to get some imaging in before moonrise.
Eta Carina 55x 20sec @ iso 3200
Horsehead 80x 20sec @ iso 3200
NGC 1300 95 x 20 sec @ iso 3200
Eta Carina 55x 20sec @iso 3200
All images taken with a SW12" dob and a canon 600d (modified).
I would like to know which processing of Carina people prefer, i think i might need to redo somewhere in between.
NGC 1300 didnt turn out as bright as i would've liked, i lost quite a lot of detail in bringing the background glow darker (and on my work monitor definitely looks over saturated) - i'll need to learn how to seperate the background from the galaxy and reprocess.
The horsehead took a lot of time on photoshop, but got a result in the end - it didn't look like the dob tracking was going to be able to accomplish capturing its faintness for a while there (esp with the neighbours lights on!! grrr).
i've waited almost a year to image Eta Carina, definitely larger than I expected (a lot bigger than when i last viewed in my old 6" newt) - a coma corrector and perhaps a mosaic mission are on the cards.
It was also the first time i've used flats. slowly getting there...
Clear skies
Rusty
