My first Eta Carina

[spearo (Frank)]

Hello,
Here's my first Eta. Polar alignment still not very good despite fumbling with drift method...
It's a registax of two 95sec ISO 3200 on the EOS 20Da, sing the C9.25 on regular CG5, unguided obviously.

Before stacking the pics I slightly adjusted the red in one andRGB enhanced the other.

Noiseware now automatically gets a run in all my processing before I vandalise the pic with some legend at the bottom.

I'll work on the drift tomorrow when clouds/fog have hopefully lifted.
cheers
frank

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Rather pleasing image that but there is no Eta anywhere to be seen...?

Mike

[avandonk]

Pedant! Close enough!
Nice pic Spearo


Bert

[beren]

top stuff, i reckon thats a great result considering the 95s unguided and working at f/10{?}

[RB (Andrew)]

Hey wow Spearo, nice work.

[tornado33]

Looks like youve got the outlying nebulosity just to one side of Eta Carina itself
Good colour rendition too
Scott

[h0ughy (David)]

very nice, did extremely well at that f ratio

[JohnG (John)]

Frank

You might be slightly off to one side but that dosn't matter, the fact you did 95 seconds, unguided at f/10 is the real achievement here. Great work.

JohnG

[Striker (Tony)]

Good effort Frank.

You have taken it to far with the noiseware as you can see the image is too smooth....but that's part of the learning process.

[spearo (Frank)]

Thanks everyone!
Mike's right it missed Eta. I'll try again and hope to do better. I think it looks a bit too red too. And ISO 3200 i shigher than I wish to use. I'll see if I can take longer exposures at lower ISO (and I'll watch the noiseware!)
:]

thanks for the encouragment
cheers
frank