Climbing the learning cliff with the Carina Nebula

acarleton (Aidan) · #1 03-04-2014, 03:24 PM

I took this last night and i am pretty happy with it. I am making progress in the world of astrophotography and the associated learning cliff. I live in an apartment complex so there is a lot of LP, i took this with a CLS EOS clip and a Baader MPCC which i just purchased from the IIS classifieds. it is amazing how big the Carina nebula is, no way i can fit it in my FOV

NGC 3372
modded Canon 600D
10" f4 Newt
NEQ6
95 subs @ 51 seconds
ISO 400

pluto (Hugh) · #2 03-04-2014, 03:47 PM

Good image, nice detail and very little noise.

Maybe you've cranked the contrast a bit much, looks like there could be a little more data in the faint bits that you could bring out.

acarleton (Aidan) · #3 03-04-2014, 03:49 PM

Yeah, I agree. I will have a play around with the data and see what I can come up with.

acarleton (Aidan) · #4 03-04-2014, 04:13 PM

Any better ?

jenchris (Jennifer) · #5 03-04-2014, 04:34 PM

The detail is splendid - what happened to the subtle colours - perhaps a few subs with less light to balance the star colours a bit

acarleton (Aidan) · #6 03-04-2014, 04:40 PM

I don't really know what I am doing ... would shorter subs help if I stacked them together in DSS or would I need to merge them in photoshop to coax out the detail

pluto (Hugh) · #7 03-04-2014, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by acarleton

Any better ?

Yeah heaps, nice one!

Quote:

Originally Posted by jenchris

The detail is splendid - what happened to the subtle colours - perhaps a few subs with less light to balance the star colours a bit

I doubt you'd get any better star colours while using the CLS filter.
I used to use one and found I got the best results if I did half my subs with and half without the CLS filter and just stack them all together. Definitely didn't eradicate as much light pollution but was a good compromise between star colour and washed out images.