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Old 24-08-2016, 09:43 AM
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DSLR Helix from Astrofest

Hi all - been busy so it has taken me a while to process this.

This is around 3.5 hours of integration across two nights using 8 minute subs (my longest capture prior to Astrofest was about an hour). Taken using the trusty North Group ED102 and modded Pentax K5-IIs DSLR. It's a crop comprising roughly 60% of the original field.

Obviously this is a long way from matching the great recent images of this object by Aidan, Adam (and of course many others on the forum previously) but I'm pretty happy with this result.
Comments and criticism welcome as always.

Higher res available at Astrobin:
http://www.astrobin.com/full/260949/0/
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