My 25 hour Helix

dvj (John) · #1 12-10-2012, 04:36 AM

Plugging away at this with the little light sipper FSQ.

25 hours Ha so far (5nm bandpass)
Proline 16803
40 minute subs
FSQ
From Coonabarabran.

I used a bit of noise reduction in PS to help the background a bit, but the orignal data looks very good.

http://imageshack.us/a/img100/4403/helix25hrs.jpg

ourkind (Carlos) · #2 12-10-2012, 05:56 AM

Outstanding detail! WOW!

cybereye (Mario) · #3 12-10-2012, 07:10 AM

Very, very nice!

Stevec35 (Steve) · #4 12-10-2012, 07:21 AM

Great stuff John! Do you plan to add in OIII as Martin did?

Cheers

Steve

Larryp (Laurie) · #5 12-10-2012, 07:23 AM

Superb, John!

dvj (John) · #6 12-10-2012, 07:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Great stuff John! Do you plan to add in OIII as Martin did?

Cheers

Steve

Well I did not originally plan to, and I had only expected to shoot about 10 hrs Ha because I thought the FL of the FSQ was just a little short for this object. But then that Martin guy showed his spectacular image and I just had to see what else was in there. I'll expose some OIII next clear night and see how long it's going to take to get enough signal.

Paul Haese · #7 12-10-2012, 08:18 AM

The extra hours of data over my image really shows. I like the layered look to your data. Perhaps if I get more time I will do more to improve my image. As your image I can see that if you got the same amount of data for the OIII then this image would really be spectacular. Nice work.