Eta Carina and Running Chicken Nebulae Mosaic

[Toddylamo (Harry)]

Another bucket list pairing completed. I took this four-panel mosaic in one night while camping in a Bortle 1 location in the Darling Downs.

This went pretty smoothly until I had a power failure while shooting my final panel (upper left quadrant), which was luckily one that did not contain too much nebulosity - or anything interesting for that matter. It ended up only being about 45 minutes behind the other 3 panels, which were 2 hours each. Shooting at F/2 on a moonless, bortle 1 night was as good as it sounds, and I am pretty happy with the amount of faint stuff I was able to pull out with only 2 hours of exposure.

Eqipment: Samyang 135mm, ASI294MC Pro, Wedged Nexstar Evolution Mount, Optolong UV/IR Cut, Orion 50mm Guide Scope, ASI290MM Mini Guide Camera.

Processing: DSS -> Photoshop (Starnet V2, RCA Gradient Xterminator, RCA Star Shrink, Topaz Denoise)

Astrobin Link

[kosborn (Kevin)]

Very nice image and framing Harry. I can only dream of Bortle 1 skies....


Kevin

[Toddylamo (Harry)]

Originally Posted by kosborn

Very nice image and framing Harry. I can only dream of Bortle 1 skies....


Kevin

Thanks Kevin,

Happy to live in a country where Bortle 1 is really only 3 hours away from anywhere…

[Kuz]

Nice capture Harry can't beat a nice wide field image

[gregbradley]

That's a terrific shot. A good widefield is quite an uplifting image.

Greg.

[Retrograde (Pete)]

Very nice - love this region.

[Spaceman_Brown (Matt)]

That. Is. AWESOME! What a great image. I love wide field work like this. Southern hemisphere represent 🤜

[pkinchington (Peter (Kanga))]

Originally Posted by Toddylamo

Another bucket list pairing completed. I took this four-panel mosaic in one night while camping in a Bortle 1 location in the Darling Downs.

This went pretty smoothly until I had a power failure while shooting my final panel (upper left quadrant), which was luckily one that did not contain too much nebulosity - or anything interesting for that matter. It ended up only being about 45 minutes behind the other 3 panels, which were 2 hours each. Shooting at F/2 on a moonless, bortle 1 night was as good as it sounds, and I am pretty happy with the amount of faint stuff I was able to pull out with only 2 hours of exposure.

Eqipment: Samyang 135mm, ASI294MC Pro, Wedged Nexstar Evolution Mount, Optolong UV/IR Cut, Orion 50mm Guide Scope, ASI290MM Mini Guide Camera.

Processing: DSS -> Photoshop (Starnet V2, RCA Gradient Xterminator, RCA Star Shrink, Topaz Denoise)

Astrobin Link

I like this composition- much!

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Excellent Composition there mate, you also got Lady Liberty and the Southern Tadpoles.