Helix Nebula in HaOO

This was no easy target getting enough data to get the thin wisps of red to show up and not to have the center blown out. This is 9 nights of data 200 ODD shots 300 seconds 145 shots 120sec (one whole night) and two nights of 600 sec all Ha Red. There are 155 shots of Oiii 300 sec Blue and 30 shot each Red Green Blue for RGB stars at 60 sec each. ADD to this getting stacking set up correctly so every thing stacks to one master of each 4 1/2 hours on this computer my old one would never manage this. so you are looking at 676 shot AS one, good luck Ai.



This is a colour camera version also you will note I rotated the shot above so the "eye" sits level. This also is a small crop of the final photo. yep this kind of photography is not for every one................ You ask why so much data, the High and Low brows are very faint so its only with building up data they show. May be next year its a case of add to this data and get better.

QHY268M -10c 5 min and other times each filter over 9 nights , 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
ZWOCAA rotator
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps