Looks really quite nice.
I'm impressed by the colour balance considering it's from an unmodified camera.
There does look to be a blue colour cast over the image. Removing this will bring out the pink nebulosity which you've already captured so well, a lot more. You might also find the blue is being introduced by CA of the 50mm, I find that with my 50mm F/1.4.
Framing is quite nice but I'd like it a little higher so the star cluster under Eta isn't chopped in half.
I often find DSS won't accurately stack images, introducing trailing instead. My solution is to use RegiStar in those cases, the trailing just disappears then. I'm sure other packages might work just as well as RegiStar if you don't have a license, but I'm not sure on free ones. I keep meaning to try Maxim for those situations, never have used it for stacking.
I just read ... 1 x 300 seconds?! 1 frame! nice.
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Originally Posted by obsidianphotos
Hi all,
I had the best laid plans of the proverbial last night and set up to try and image the Crux and Carinae region. I did about two hours worth of images and they all look good but I must have too much rotation or somehing because I just cannot get DSS to stack them properly. It stacks the left of the frame featuring Crux well but turns the right of the frame into a blur. Really kicking myself for not getting a better polar allignment prior. Oh well. Still pretty happy with how the individual subs look so I thought I would share one. Would love to know what you think.
Canon 60D (unmoddified)
Canon 50mm F/1.8 @ F/4.5
1 x 300 seconds
ISO 800
Piggyback mounted on an unguided NEQ6 Pro Mount
Cheers
Greg
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Good luck with the new mounting plate. I would (if you have not got one already) also get a ball joint to attach the camera to the plate to allow for better framing of objects. I found that if I just attached the camera straight to the plate then you are limited to whatever angle the mount is at.
) I agree with you on the framing of the shot. I should have had Eta Carina more in the middle right of frame. I'm also surprissed with how the colour turned out on this. After much experimentation I have worked out the perfect white balance for this camera and my very dark skies. When I point my telescope with an also unmoddified 1000D attached at The Carina Nebula I get a lot of blue.
