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Old 05-06-2012, 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by avandonk View Post
I can get a colour image in about 120s with the stars just starting to saturate. What people have been calling HA is really a mixture of HA and NII. For example the Helix Nebula is about three times brighter in NII than HA.

I want to do deep NB and long exposures of about eight and sixteen minutes.

Bert
Yes, I'm aware that many Ha filters also overlap with NII and that yours doesn't because of its ultra narrow bandwidth. But the reason I asked is that most of the targets you've been shooting are Ha rich, not so much NII rich. ie you haven't been shooting planetary nebulae like Helix.
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