Eta Carina

[meade expert]

Took this shot friday night at Jerrara Dam (NSW near Jamberoo) of Eta Carina region.

8 mins unguided through an Orion ED80 and Canon 350D (unmodified).
Iso 1600 . Whole assembly piggybacked on a classic Lx200 10 inch.

Processed in photoshop (levels , star bloat)

The 350D is proving to be a great camera !

[Lester]

Wow Joe, very rich colouring.

What causes the blotchy effect, I am sure if you don't know someone will inform us. Otherwise it is very nice indeed.

[meade expert]

I think its the star bloat filter and the reduction to 130kb from 8mb..file ..the jpg gets noisy and blotchy.

[Rodstar (Rod)]

Thanks for sharing Joe, looks like you have been doing this sort o' thing for a while now?

[meade expert]

Still learning though !

I use to do a lot with an ST6 sbig B/W imager a few years ago.
These days I try to get out with our Astronomy group at Jerrara Dam and do as much imaging as I can.

The Canon 350D camera is proving to be a great unit.

[Rodstar (Rod)]

I have heard lots of great things about the 350D (and seen lots of great things through this forum).

Is the Horsehead avatar one of your images?

I have the same set-up re scopes, an ED80 on top of an LX200. I just haven't started imaging yet..... visual stuff is keeping me very happy at the moment.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Great image there Joe,

Looks like JPEG compression artifacts. Was it originally taken in RAW or JPEG? Colours look brilliant.

[meade expert]

Yes , original shot was in RAW..and your right jpeg at low levels may introduce heavy artifacts.

No the avatar is not an image I took...the Horsehead is a favourite of mine !

Anyone have imagesplus..thinking of buying it.
I have read great things about it.
I'm currently using maxim DL and photshop .

[RB (Andrew)]

Great image Joe.

[ving (David)]

nice detail joe
shame about the artifacts that poped up in the resize tho