Eta Carinae & Running Chicken region
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This has been the biggest (and most pleasurable) challenge of all. Make a mosaic using a narrow band from a wide region of the sky. It was almost two months using every good day to capture.
The biggest difficulty was being able to make the correct color adjustment of the background of the image without affecting the nebulae, I lost count of how many times I used DBE on Pix or redid the mosaic by the APP until I managed to reach this final result.
In the image, in addition to Eta Carinae (NGC 3372) and Chicken Running (IC 2944), it is possible to view several other objects, such as: Statue of Liberty (NGC 3576), NGC 3532, NGC 3572, NGC 3590, NGC 3603, the Pleaides do Sul (IC 2602) and an object very unknown to everyone (I was lucky to capture it, because I didn't even know it) which is RCW 58, a ring nebula originated by a special type of star called Wolf-Rayet.
In total there were 508 frames of 300s and 225 frames of 180s. Canon 200mm f2.8, ZWO ASI 1600MM-PRO Cool, Optolong Filters, Orion Sirius EQ-G (HEQ-5 PRO), Guider GSO 8x50 and QHY5L-II Color were used. Stacked images and processed in Pix Insight, for the mosaic, the Astro Pixel Processor was used.
Copyright: Ayrton Lopes
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