My best ever Eta Carina

[Lester]

As D.P. said

[FOOTPRINT]

Hi Scott,
Very good definition and colour, your guiding is spot on, the smallest stars are round and well defined, difficult to improve on this one.


regards............Jim

[Outbackmanyep]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yes Scotty that is indeed a very nice image!

Since Paul has now seen the life changing revelation of autoguiding, you must now be the last man standing who still guides by hand?
Mike

Make that 2!
I still guide by hand, mind you i dont have a digital SLR or CCD camera either....its quite a stretch to guide on a star for an hour or so....but the results are worth it!

[tornado33]

Yes indeed I remember in the old days of film, some ppl using Hypered Tech pan film often guided by hand 60 to 120 minutes, in a SINGLE exposure! What really impresses me about that is the field rotation and flexure had to be so well controlled for such long single images.

[richardo (Rich)]

Top stuff Scott !!
I like the second masked version the best.
I hate seeing things over saturated when simple masking can help reduce this.

Cheers
Rich