Gabriela Mistral Nebula (NGC3324) in NB HOS

[glend (Glen)]

The Gabriela Mistral Nebula is located at the north-west corner of Eta Carinea. Total integration time is 7 hours: 33 x 300sec Ha, 25 x 300sec Oiii, and 27 x 300sec Sii subs. Processing in DSS and Photoshop CC. Camera was the ASI1600MM-C running at -25C. Taken over a number of nights in difficult summer heat conditions. Telescope was the Skywatcher MN190, sitting on a Celestron CGX mount.

Astrobin Details page (with histogram) here:

http://www.astrobin.com/284496/

Full Screen here:

http://www.astrobin.com/full/284496/0/

Mini thumbnail is below.

[Atmos (Colin)]

An interesting region Glen, some quite faint regions showing up, faint enough that I wasn't sure if they were real or fingerprints on my iPhone

[Flugel88 (Michael)]

Nice one Glen I live in your area know how bad its been of late (except for the last 3 cracking nights) good effort imaging the Mistral.

[codemonkey (Lee)]

Nice one Glen! I've noticed the processing on your recent images improve quite a bit and this is a good example of that. Good work mate.

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Great stuff Glen

[glend (Glen)]

Thanks Colin, Micheal, Lee and Dunk. I am trying to improve all aspects of my work, and equipment, and I think it is starting to pay off.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

I agree with Lee, some nice processing going on here. I've never been able to warm to that colour pallet but still a good image mate, the 3D cave like profile never fails to disappoint

The framing here makes Gabriella's head look like it has just rissen out of a chest cavity...ala The Thing 1982

Mike