Eta Carina Under Supermoon

[Atmos (Colin)]

For the Super Blue Blood Moon I decided to go to Heathcote to escape the mosquitoes that plague my Melbourne residence, escape the expansive tree-line and go to where it was forecasted to have pristine clear skies. In the end the first two points came true, no mosquitoes at my rural property and no trees in the way. It was however reasonably clouded out until 2am so I was relegated to watching it with binoculars and not photographing it for the most part.

At 3:30 am I decided I may as well photograph something so I figured I'd go to a big bright object in an attempt to counter the big bright moon behind me. Bring on NGC 3372.

What has resulted is a dithered non calibrated image with basic stretching and saturation applied. Processing time... Less than 5 minutes

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[LewisM]

Nothing wrong with quickies - I am the king of low integration time

[bigjoe (JOSEPH)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

For the Super Blue Blood Moon I decided to go to Heathcote to escape the mosquitoes that plague my Melbourne residence, escape the expansive tree-line and go to where it was forecasted to have pristine clear skies. In the end the first two points came true, no mosquitoes at my rural property and no trees in the way. It was however reasonably clouded out until 2am so I was relegated to watching it with binoculars and not photographing it for the most part.

At 3:30 am I decided I may as well photograph something so I figured I'd go to a big bright object in an attempt to counter the big bright moon behind me. Bring on NGC 3372.

What has resulted is a dithered non calibrated image with basic stretching and saturation applied. Processing time... Less than 5 minutes

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Nice work Col..

These are the sort of images I prefer to see no ridiculous over use of deconvolution and bright unnatural colours etc ..someones image back I had to watch with my sunglasses on.

bigjoe

[Atmos (Colin)]

Originally Posted by LewisM

Nothing wrong with quickies - I am the king of low integration time

Low integration time makes for fun processing

Originally Posted by bigjoe

Nice work Col..

These are the sort of images I prefer to see no ridiculous over use of deconvolution and bright unnatural colours etc ..someones image back I had to watch with my sunglasses on.

bigjoe

I’ve certainly been known to do the over deconvolution and heavily saturated images

[RickS (Rick)]

Angry pink robot lying down? Nice work for a quickie, Colin

[LewisM]

Originally Posted by bigjoe

Nice work Col..

These are the sort of images I prefer to see no ridiculous over use of deconvolution and bright unnatural colours etc ..someones image back I had to watch with my sunglasses on.

bigjoe

I'll exponentially agree with that.

I understand narrow band imaging, I just don't like it. It's not natural in the way that it is not what our eyes see. That is why I prefer RGB ALWAYS over an NB image, no matter how well that NB may have been done. Yeah, I stirred the pot considering how many NB images there are here

Green and gold may be Aussie Aussie Aussie OI OI OI, but it has no place in space...

[willik (Willik)]

Nice image Colin just needed a bit more grunt
Martin

[atalas]

Beautiful!well done Col.

[Atmos (Colin)]

Originally Posted by RickS

Angry pink robot lying down? Nice work for a quickie, Colin

I’ve never quite seen the angry robot in it! Gotta love a quickie though

Originally Posted by LewisM

I'll exponentially agree with that.

I understand narrow band imaging, I just don't like it. It's not natural in the way that it is not what our eyes see. That is why I prefer RGB ALWAYS over an NB image, no matter how well that NB may have been done. Yeah, I stirred the pot considering how many NB images there are here

Green and gold may be Aussie Aussie Aussie OI OI OI, but it has no place in space...

If I added in some Ha it would make the red punchier! That’s the fun of OSC, you cannot go non-natural.

Originally Posted by willik

Nice image Colin just needed a bit more grunt
Martin

Grunt takes more time to process

Originally Posted by atalas

Beautiful!well done Col.

Thanks Louie

[LewisM]

Ok, add some H-a...I'll let you

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

Good one Colin. Nicely resolved stars with good colour. Detail in nebula has come out well particularly considering it was a quick one. Definitely worth waiting up for I think.