Helix my first attempt at it ... Repro

[Marke (Mark)]

Spent the last couple weeks when clouds permitted collecting data on Helix not expecting much as a result from the backyard . I think it turned out better than I expected in fact I was happy to get anything that remotely looked like it ... bit of LP to remove and some slight gradients I will work on that
Total was 6hr Ha 3hr O3 180s exposures GSO RC10 , ASI1600

Added a bit more Ha and reprocessed ... found something I had been doing wrong getting much better results now
link to better image
http://www.astrobin.com/307705/0/

[billdan (Bill)]

Helix looks pretty good Marke, I would be pleased with that.
You probably need another 6 hours of Ha to get those outer shells to reveal themselves.

Cheers
Bill

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

that's lovely. How are you finding the ASI?

[Marke (Mark)]

Originally Posted by billdan

Helix looks pretty good Marke, I would be pleased with that.
You probably need another 6 hours of Ha to get those outer shells to reveal themselves.

Cheers
Bill

I will get some more time on it but I'm limited by background light levels unfortunately

[Marke (Mark)]

Originally Posted by graham.hobart

that's lovely. How are you finding the ASI?

Thanks Graham very happy with 1600 its very sensitive I did find some amp glow with this image for some reason that I hadn't noticed before.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeah, that's pretty good Marke, I like the way you have managed to show both the radiating fan like OIII structures and also squeezed in the Ha globule details too, not easy

Mike

[Marke (Mark)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeah, that's pretty good Marke, I like the way you have managed to show both the radiating fan like OIII structures and also squeezed in the Ha globule details too, not easy

Mike

Thanks Mike its probably let down a bit by my post processing I will be playing with it for awhile I think

[gregbradley]

Very nice perhaps a tad black clipped? (perhaps its my monitor).

Greg.

[Marke (Mark)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Very nice perhaps a tad black clipped? (perhaps its my monitor).

Greg.

Think it's from the high jpeg compression it went a bit posterized on saving

[RickS (Rick)]

Nice work, Mark! Just keep adding data

[Marke (Mark)]

Originally Posted by RickS

Nice work, Mark! Just keep adding data

Thanks mate most likely will as it is only just rising of an evening

[Raydar (Ray Palmer)]

Nice result Mark.

Ray

[traveller (Bo)]

Nice one Mark.

[Atmos (Colin)]

You must be shooting at quite an image scale with that setup Mark. The results are rest, as others have said, just keep adding

[Marke (Mark)]

Thanks guys I may keep working at it

[Marke (Mark)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

You must be shooting at quite an image scale with that setup Mark. The results are rest, as others have said, just keep adding

It's at 10" f5.5 with the asi1600 I'm at 0.56 sampling
It seems to work ok for small fov

[DJT (David)]

Looks good Mark. One of those NB targets where you can just keep pumping away grabbing data to your hearts content. More Oiii whilst the moon is away would be good.

[Marke (Mark)]

Originally Posted by DJT

Looks good Mark. One of those NB targets where you can just keep pumping away grabbing data to your hearts content. More Oiii whilst the moon is away would be good.

Thanks David that's probably what I will be doing

[JA]

Well done Mark I love that radial filament detail that's starting to come out in what I suppose we should call the iris. Just like the human eye !

Best
JA

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Very respectable.