First Halpha shot

[garymck (Gary)]

My first ever Halpha shot - Eta Carina region

15x5mins
GSO 8" f4 Newt
QHY8 OSC ccd
Baader MPCC
Baader 7nm filter
Guided by Qguide and 100mm f5 Skywatcher achromat
cheers
Gary

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Very nice! I love the orientation. Its like seeing it for the first time again. You've done a great job, especially on the detail.

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Lovely, smooth image Gary.
My opinion...I think you could pull out a bit more contrast/detail with a few levels/curves iterations.
Hope you don't mind me trying out on your image?

Great first Ha...your setup looks like it has the potential to produce some great stuff.
Doug

[garymck (Gary)]

Thanks for the kind words guys,

.....and I like what you did Doug, looks more contrasty than mine. I wasn't sure how far to push it, nor how it would show up on IIS so didn't go as hard as I could have. Will be a bit more aggressive in future...

cheers
Gary

Originally Posted by dugnsuz

Lovely, smooth image Gary.
My opinion...I think you could pull out a bit more contrast/detail with a few levels/curves iterations.
Hope you don't mind me trying out on your image?

Great first Ha...your setup looks like it has the potential to produce some great stuff.
Doug

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Excellent shot Gary, Ha only is a joy to look at in my opinion, the contrast is very gratifying, Dougs Sidonio made a difference too

Mike

[Peter Ward]

I was clicking on the link thinking oh no, not "another ho-humm Eta shot"

No it's not!
This is really good. Very very good.

Nice pin-point stars, excellent guiding. Noise well controlled along with the dynamic range of the image.

Well done!

[telecasterguru (Frank)]

Very nice image and well presented.

Frank

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

Great attempt! So many details. It`s fun to do Halpha, isn`t it?

cheers

werner

[RobF (Rob)]

Congratulations Gary - inspiring image.
It really is amazing the extra "drama" Ha seems to bring out in an object.