My first DSO - another Carina

[telemarker (Keith)]

Yet another newbie/Carina/mosaic photo:
This is my first posted DSO on the forum after accumulating enough gear and lurking even longer.

A mosaic of 2 panes, each 30 x 2min, unmodded Canon 20D, iso 800 with 30 darks stacked in DSS. Levels/curves/fringekiller action applied.

Imaging scope: 100mm F6 Achromat with WO VR-1 filter.
Guide scope/camera: 80mm F6/DSI pro on LXD75 guided with PhD.

Criticism/suggestions most welcome.

[Jay-qu]

It looks a little red - even the stars look red.

But otherwise that looks awesome, Im impressed with the sharpness.

[TrevorW]

Yeah drop the red add a little blue otherwise quite good

Nice one

[AlexN]

I would go as far as to say thats a great image of eta carine, as the others mention, bring the red back a little, but thats a minor minor issue...

Very nice guiding and focus!! The WO VR-1 certainly makes your 100mm F/6 achro perform very well..

Do you intend to add another two panels to encompass the rest of the the nebula?

Well done mate.
Alex.

[telemarker (Keith)]

Thanks all for you kind comments and suggestions.

I've tried a pulling back the red and boosting the green and blue a tad and the result can be seen below. However, in doing this and taking note of jay-qu comments about the star colours, I noticed that saving the file as a JPEG was knocking out the colours of the background stars. I've saved the image as a gif and you can see the difference in star colour. Anyone else seen this happen?

Alex, I intend to finish the job but am having a slight problem with cloud at the moment.

[jase (Jason)]

Eeeekkkk! First DSO image and you're doing mosaics! Maybe a bit too much to take aboard and do the scene justice. Alas, I admire your ethics. Good advice from others to note. Keep at it - look forward to seeing more.