The Eye of God - Helix Nebula

Dan Thompson

The Eye of God - Helix Nebula

This image was REALLY challenging I thought - this is 5 data sets (~5 hours) combined for a single image, and even still the data was pretty rough (Sii was unusable). I wanted to highlight was was going on in the shadows of this one to get a different look from how everyone else was processing it. This is my take.

SPECIFICATIONS

Telescope ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Planewave CDK24 (CHI-1-CMOS)

Camera ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

QHY 600M

Location ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

El Sauce Observatory, Chile

Date of observation ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

25 Aug 2023

Filters ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

HSO

Processing ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Pixinsight and Photoshop

Credits ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Source data - Telescope Live, Processing - Dan Thompson (@danthompson_TN)