Helix, with problems

[ultranova]

Hi Everyone, I was inspired by an image that I saw here a few weeks back of the Helix nebula, I thought it would be nice to try and capture it but knowing

it is fairly low on the Horizon this would be very problematic for me due to the amount of light pollution that's constantly there.

One of the reasons I don't normally entertain taking photos below 30 degrees.

The Helix was about 17 degrees from horizon, which made it quite difficult to capture because of trees and houses.

It has taken 6 sessions of around 20 minutes each to get this result, not happy with it as it lacks detail, I don't know if that's the norm at low

degrees(bad atmospherics) as I don't normally bother because of the above.

Normally I would submit a 100% crop of the target image I have taken, but I think it looks pants so here it is at roughly 35%

The usual set up Quattro 8 inch cf modified Canon 1100d with cls clip filter,

neq6 pro mount , Mppc coma corrector,qhy5 auto guider with Phd.

processing done in PI and PE

Thanks for looking.

Paul.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice. I have seen the Helix through my scope, and of all the planetaries I have seen it has about the lowest surface brightness (or appeared to due to its low altitude). It just shows up as the faintest of smoke rings. Well done getting this much colour in it.

[Gina]

Very nice indeed

[ultranova]

Thanks guys much appreciated,

[Spikey]

I like it, I'm going to bag this one of these days. Absolutely no chance from my current location.

As you say it's very low and difficult to pick out of the murk

[Quatermass]

Very well done this was a tricky one to capture but well worth the effort as its such a cool nebula all the good stuff is low down.

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