Just another face in the crowd ... Finished my Eta

[gregbradley]

Looking over your image again Marcus with the need to repro my own image I am very impressed with how you got that luminous bluey centre of Eta whilst retaining the outer red neb areas. The inner area is the colour you get with a non modified DSLR whilst the outer red neb normally only shows with extensive Ha.

Nice job. I'd write down that recipe. It could become a family traditional classic recipe!

Ha blending is a fine art.

Greg.

[Ross G]

A beautiful photo Marcus.

I love the colours.


Ross.

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Looking over your image again Marcus with the need to repro my own image I am very impressed with how you got that luminous bluey centre of Eta whilst retaining the outer red neb areas. The inner area is the colour you get with a non modified DSLR whilst the outer red neb normally only shows with extensive Ha.

Nice job. I'd write down that recipe. It could become a family traditional classic recipe!

Ha blending is a fine art.

Greg.

Thanks again Greg! I wish I could write down a recipe!! Every image needs slightly different treatment. The closest I came was in the PMs we exchanged! It's more like a pinch of this and a dash of that!

Originally Posted by Ross G

A beautiful photo Marcus.

I love the colours.


Ross.

Cheers Ross!

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Duh, I almost missed this beauty! I agree with all other comments Marcus, this is one of the best ETA I have ever seen, very nicely processed and with excellent colors..

Clear skies
Marco

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Originally Posted by marco

Duh, I almost missed this beauty! I agree with all other comments Marcus, this is one of the best ETA I have ever seen, very nicely processed and with excellent colors..

Clear skies
Marco

Many thanks Marco!

[alpal]

It's a truly magnificent photo Marcus.

Why don't you enter it for an APOD?

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Originally Posted by alpal

It's a truly magnificent photo Marcus.

Why don't you enter it for an APOD?

Thanks Alpal - appreciate the vote of confidence!

An APOD would be a thrill but it's a notoriously difficult nut to crack and I usually don't bother trying ... so the chances are remote to say the least!

[alpal]

Hi Marcus,
You have won many other awards -
I think an APOD is on the cards soon.

[iceman (Mike)]

This is a brilliant Eta Carinae, Mark. I kept coming back to it.

The colours, the blueness (), detail, contrast - all great.

It's now IOTW.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Great shot and congrats on IOTW. One for the pool room.

[cventer]

Gee I missed this one as well. Thats brilliant.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yes, a rather eye catching Eta, well worth another look

Mike

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

I am a child of the northern hemisphere. All I can say is thank you for such a breathtaking view to the Eta Carina Nebula!

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Originally Posted by iceman

This is a brilliant Eta Carinae, Mark. I kept coming back to it.

The colours, the blueness (), detail, contrast - all great.

It's now IOTW.

Thanks very much for that Mike!! Very chuffed here!!

Originally Posted by multiweb

Great shot and congrats on IOTW. One for the pool room.

Sincere thanks Marc - much appreciated!

Originally Posted by cventer

Gee I missed this one as well. Thats brilliant.

Cheers Chris! Glad you liked it

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yes, a rather eye catching Eta, well worth another look

Mike

Glad you think so mate! I must admit, I'm kind of proud of it myself. ... And a bit disappointed I didn't "discover" it sooner!

Originally Posted by prokyon

I am a child of the northern hemisphere. All I can say is thank you for such a breathtaking view to the Eta Carina Nebula!

Thanks Werner! Much appreciated! It certainly is the jewel in the crown of nebulae for us southerners .

[rcheshire (Rowland)]

That is amazing. What an incredible image. Well done Marc.

[Martin Pugh]

Hey Marcus

a little oversaturated, but a fine image.

I would make one other observation though. In your want to satisfy the 'I want more blue in my ETA' people, the stars are showing a tad too much of it.

Regardless, its a fine image mate.

Martin

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Originally Posted by rcheshire

That is amazing. What an incredible image. Well done Marc.

Thanks Rowland!

Originally Posted by Martin Pugh

Hey Marcus

a little oversaturated, but a fine image.

I would make one other observation though. In your want to satisfy the 'I want more blue in my ETA' people, the stars are showing a tad too much of it.

Regardless, its a fine image mate.

Martin

Cheers Martin! Interestingly, most of the images I see don't have enough blue stars! This patch of sky has a lot of them. I haven't deliberately processed blue into the image either, nor have I differentially processed the stars in any way. If you look closely, there are also a lot of other colours in the star field. Could I ease off the star saturation a tad - yeah probably - but I like how it looks

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

OK Martin - I eased off on the star saturation ... call it peer pressure!

[alpal]

I often wondered how we should present H-Alpha information.

The logical choice is red but you could equally make it a white colour
as gray scale so that it looked like opaque clouds & it wouldn't be wrong -
since you can't see infra red anyway.

It gets down to personal choice.

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Congratulation Marc....a perfect image !!!!



All the best,
Leo