Eta Carina Core by Moonlight

[2020BC (Bill Christie)]

Centred on the interesting core area. Cropped to 800x600.

Practicing. Waiting for the moon to fade. Criticism welcome.

Canon 350D shot at prime focus of a Meade LXD-75 SN-8.

This is a single 90 second exposure, ASA1600, with noise reduction On.

You can view a much larger version here (only 170Kb).

[h0ughy (David)]

nice you have some of that bok globule stuff in there and some nice coverage.

[2020BC (Bill Christie)]

Hi Houghy,

As you can see, in the end, I didn't buy an *IST (I coudn't get past the hurdle of the brand name ). I'm glad I bought the 350D. I'm very happy with this camera.

[RB (Andrew)]

That's really nice Bill.
Was there any processing done on it apart from in Camera Noise Reduction?
Did you shoot in RAW or jpg?

They're great cameras aren't they?

[2020BC (Bill Christie)]

The image was Canon RAW exported (non-linear) to .TIFF via Canon's Zoom Browser (which is a really nice tool by the way). Loaded to Imageready for processing, which was limited to a histogram/color balance then a noise filter and +2 unsharp mask in Noiseware, and then back into ImageReady for a final small touch at the histogram.

[tornado33]

Good work there.
Im dying to see how the 350D noise reduction goes on longer (10 min) ISO 1600 shots, I predict quite well as even with no noise reduction my 300D isnt too bad apart from the amp glow.