Carinae widefield

[taxman (Matt)]

Encouraged by my effort with m8 and m20 the other day, I got the ol' DSLR out last night despite being two days away from a full moon and thought I'd see how I went with Carinae.

The result looks dramatic, despite as you can see by the blue/green tint of the stars in the corners, I have dropped the red off as far as I dare.

I thought DSLRs were supposed to be pretty vicious with red wavelengths. Or is Carinae just really, really red?

As before, it is the best 120 of 150 x 30 sec lights with 50 darks, flats and dark flats through an FS60CB with the dedicated Takahashi flattener on an unguiided p2Z. The original is 7800x 500ish, so this is reduced a lot.

I have to get around to downloading DSS on my real computer - my poor old netbook has been going for around 20 hours putting this one together .

[Hagar (Doug)]

This has come up very nicely and shows the extent of this huge nebula.

well done

[taxman (Matt)]

Thanks Doug. A widefield of Carina is probably a bit passe this far into the season, but I had to have a crack anyway.

Mike (strongmanmike) has again very kindly hosted a high-res version of this picture on his website. It can be found at:

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/124033559