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Old 05-07-2011, 01:21 AM
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strongmanmike (Michael)
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Deep Halpha Helix - AG12

Having spent a week of my life imaging this baby nearly two years ago I didn't feel like doing another image of it just yet ...so this started out as just a field of view test on Saturday night... but the first few 5min subs showed quite a bit so I decided to see what 2hrs worth of 5min subs would reveal, just for fun.

The seeing wasn't as good as 2 years ago but this is still almost as much depth as I got with the 6" Starfire in 10hrs worth of 15min Ha subs and not that far off the whole 27hr SIIHaOIII effort from 09.

It's a surprising result and from a light polluted sky - it was just an experiment so the processing was not pedantic (I had a flat issue too..not sure what happened there but only noticable in the full frame version?)

Full frame at 35% full res

Closer crop at 70% full res

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