Full view of the Carina Nebula in Narrowband S-H-O (jacquesdeacon)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Carina (Car) · Contains: Carina Nebula · IC 2599 · NGC 3293 · NGC 3324 · NGC 3372 · The star t1 Car · The star w Car · eta Car Nebula

Full view of the Carina Nebula in Narrowband S-H-O, jacquesdeacon

Powered byPixInsight

Full view of the Carina Nebula in Narrowband S-H-O

Powered byPixInsight

Full view of the Carina Nebula in Narrowband S-H-O

The Southern Hemisphere gem - the Carina Nebula, is a true wonder.

This was a 4 panel project to frame the full extend of the object. The total integration of 20 hours over four panels is not that much, but I think it delivered an image with amazing details

I really wanted to present this image as a 'classic' Hubble SHO palette, but it is an challenging object to get right. The Ha-signal mapped to green is very strong, making color balancing quite difficult. I didn't want to remove / transfer all the green to the 'gold-blue' toned image, as that led to a bit of a flat image. Careful color balancing with a lot of color-masks was in order to create the depth in the color tones.

The central area is very bright, needing some management with the HDRMT tool in PI, revealing some amazing details around the 'keyhole' at the objects central area.

The nebula is located in a very star-rich area, so star-management is also critical to get the nebula to stand out. The smaller star-size produced by the narrowband filtered light helped and in combination with RC's Blur-X, managed the stars well. The stars are no where near 'true-color', but I think they complement the object well.

Thank you for looking!

Southern Hemisphere Astro

Please note: The following tables are updated every 24 hours.

Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

Submitted The date and time when you submitted this image for IOTD/TP consideration.	...
Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

Status	Basic success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	7825022
PixInsight job	n/a
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

Full view of the Carina Nebula in Narrowband S-H-O

Full view of the Carina Nebula in Narrowband S-H-O

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

		...
You have no new notifications.

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

Full view of the Carina Nebula in Narrowband S-H-O

Full view of the Carina Nebula in Narrowband S-H-O

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

Notifications

AstroBin is in READ ONLY mode

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Are you really sure?

Warning!

Warning!

Are you sure?

Report abuse

Slideshow settings

IOTD/TP stats (last [x] days)

Distribution of astrophotographers

Distribution of subject types

Distribution of data sources

Sorry

Sorry

Share

Upload new revision

Upload uncompressed source (XISF/FITS/PSD/TIFF)

Delete image and all its revisions?

Delete original image?

Delete all other versions?

Delete all revisions?

IOTD/TP stats

The following people like this image

The following people bookmarked this image

Warning

Flag malfunctioning thumbnails

Contains

Remove yourself as a collaborator

Plate-solving information