The Helix Nebula

 

Astro-Physics RHA 305mm F3.8 Honders Astrograph, Bisque PME

SBIG STT8300 AO-8T FW8-G

34Hours of Ha, 5 Hours OIII + 30:30:30 mins RGB

AstroDon 3nm Ha, OIII, Gen 2 RGB

Capture with CCDops, post-processing in MaxImCCD 6 and Photoshop 6

Data capture from Barden Ridge, southern Sydney.

Deep H-alpha data is shown below

 

 

Image copyright Peter J Ward 2014