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Old 30-08-2015, 05:59 AM
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Sculpted Helix

Hello All,

Sharing a couple of pictures I imaged during August.

The Helix nebula is a bi-color narrowband combo consisting of 2 nights total 16 x 1800s HAlpha and 2 nights of OIII totaling 16 x 1800s ISO 800.

The Sculptor Galaxy was 2 hours of 10 minutes 2 nights trough the Moon & Skyglow filter 600s ISO400 subs.

After the Helix nebula drifted into the meridian extremity where I had to do a meridian flip, once it was done there was no guide star in the OAG so that was it for a nights of helix exposures, but luckily I did have a guide star when framed the Sculptor Galaxy just off center.

The Sculptor galaxy was vertical in the frame and edge to edge. I didn't want to change the alignment set for the framing of the Helix nebula to continue the exposures the following nights so I just imaged NGC253 and cropped & rotated it after stacking and processing.

Both images were exposed at the SCTs native 2000mm.

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Old 30-08-2015, 10:34 AM
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Nicely done there! 16 hours on Helix and it's showing, looking great!
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Old 30-08-2015, 12:11 PM
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Two very tidy shots. Beaute field.
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Nice colours on the Helix, Mariusz.
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Thanks for the kind comments gents, greatly appreciated.
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