Here's a couple of rarely imaged planetary nebulae.
Abell 35 in Hydra is 770 arc seconds making it around the same size as the helix but at magnitude 12.0 it is very faint, the Helix is 6.5.
Here's a link to Capella Observatory image, the best I was able to find.
http://www.capella-observatory.com/I...Ns/Abell35.htm
Here's another link about the shock wave in this nebula, fascinating!!
http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthre...in-PN-abell-35
I had to experiment quite a bit to bring the nebula out, quite proud of what I've dug out!
( See Unprocessed image ) I think the striations in background of the the image is nebulosity and not colour noise.
Can't be sure as there's not many images of this one.
Abell 24 is in Canis Minor is unusually red, diameter 355 arc seconds and magnitude 13.6!!
Seemed to be much easier to process, even stands out more in unprocessed image. See below.
Here's a link to Misti mountain Observatories image.
http://www.mistisoftware.com/astrono...pk217p14v1.htm
Both final images are cropped.
8” F/4 astrograph , baader type 3 coma corrector,. HEQ Pro 5 mount, orion mini guider.
Camera.
Unmodded Cannon 1100D plus cooler box. 72 subs x 2 minutes at ISO 6400. Abell 35, 32 x 6400 and 12 x 5 minutes for Abell 24. Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker .Processed in Photoshop Cs2..
Cheers,
Justin.