Eta Carina 9 panel mosaic

[LightningNZ (Cam)]

At the risk of overreaching... I give you a repro of my 9-panel Eta Carina Nebula mosaic.

Each panel has 20 frames of 30 seconds. No calibration frames were used, though thanks to poor polar alignment the images are pretty effectively dithered (hence the 30 second subs ).

Taken from Wallaroo, just outside of Canberra with a 6" F/5 Newtonian, GSO coma corrector, Hutech IDAS LPF and Nikon D5100, all on an HEQ5-Pro mount. Panels were stacked in DSS and composited in MS ICE. Post processing in Adobe Photoshop.

Larger versions:
HD 1920x1429 https://www.dropbox.com/s/uam0shobn0...c_med.jpg?dl=0
Full size 8358x6221 https://www.dropbox.com/s/lfh4o6dsv3...ic_lg.jpg?dl=0

Thanks for looking,
Cam

[Atmos (Colin)]

Even with short subs and only 10 minutes on each panel, still looks pretty good in high resolution

[Regulus (Trevor)]

Very subdued colours, but the hires is a pleasure to look at Cam.
Nicely done.

Trev