eta Carinae Nebula (NGC 3372)

Imaged by Dale Liebenberg

Subject: NGC 3372

Equipment: Tak FSQ106ED on TAK EM200 mount. SBIG 11k camera with remote guide head on Astrodon MMOAG off-axis guider, Takometer rotator, 3nm Astrodon filters.

Exposures: 10x (200 min) SII (Red); 10x (200 min) Ha (Green) and 8x (160 min) OIII (Blue)

Software: MaximDL, ACP, FMax

Processing: I calibrated the subs and stacked the three filter groups in MaximDL, thereafter applying FTT high pass, mild filter to each. The three filter groups where imported in PS CS4 where the processing was done.

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