This moderately wide field image of the Eta Carinae nebula was taken at the 2008 Southern Sky Tour. The sky was good between clouds but there was only time for 11 cloud free frames. Fortunately the Nebula is quite bright and the resulting image is not bad.
Details
Date and location - Early AM of 2008-02-05 at the Ensenada Lodge, Costa Rica. Equipment- Modified Canon 350D camera with 300mm lens on Astrotrack mount. Exposure- 11 light and 40 dark frames at f/4 and ISO 1600 for 60s each with 20 flat frames added for calibration.Processing- Calibration, alignment, stacking and digital development in ImagesPlus. Some additional enhancement using Photoshop.