The Eye of God (aka NGC7293)

[paulobao]

Hello,

just got back from vacation! Before reaching the house still had time to dust off the equipment (I stay 4 nights at my parents house at the country side). Colected some photons . I will process it as sonn I have time to!

Here the first one: NGC7293, The Helix Nebula (The eye of God).

It is a very low DSO at this latitude but I gave it a try!

C9.25 @ f/d 6.2 + QSI532WS-M1 @ -15ºC

Ha and OIII filters from Baader.

Ha: 35x10min bin 2x2

OIII: 25x10min bin 2x2

First attempt at processing (so this is version 1).

Cheers,

paulobao

[vesper]

Wow,

ace photo, paulobao. I just want to jump right in to the "pupil"! I'm lovin it!

[blinkity-blonk]

Wow! Thats huge... Thats amazing! You chose some good photons to collect.

B-B

[toml42]

That is incredible, so much detail!

If I might offer my opinion, I think the colours are maybe a little oversaturated, but it does make for a very striking image. Superb!

[blinky]

WOW - OK so the colours are a little overblown in the centre, it's a little noisy but WOW!!!! That's simply stunning! A bit more work and and I think you have an APOD image there. One of the most amazing images i have seen on SGL and I think there is still a bit more that can be done with it.

Well done:icon_salut:

[Keiran]

WOW.... Now thats an image... very ummm, whats the word 'eye catching' sorry poor i know

[ollypenrice]

Wow, you have the signal!!! If the Helix is low for you it is lower for me...

I really liked Ha-O111-plus a 50-50 mix of O111/Ha when I shot this. You get a lovely blue and yellow colour scheme. Give it a try!

The image scale is very impressive but personally I would use your beautiful Tak to get more room around the nebula. You could always add the SCT data in a programme like Registar.

Please excuse me giving you ideas but the data you have is truly fantastic! I'm just sharing experiences.

Best wishes,

Olly

[Beyond_Vision]

That is one gorgeous planetary nebula expertly captured and processed Paulo

Regards

Kevin

[RobH]

Blimey!!

That's come out a bit good Paulo

Much too far south for me to consider unfortunately.

Cheers

Rob

[Tim]

Just look at the cometary knots!!! Gorgeous Paulo, you will have some fun processing that one

[Worzsel]

Ok so which bits are the cometary knots exactly ?

Beautiful image paulo!

[paulobao]

Thanks to all for the comments and sugestions (thanks Olly for the sugestions about the processing).

I will reprocess it sooner trying a new approach! (My reference image is the one from the Hubble made in 2004. They used only Ha and OIII filters too so I try to match the colors...not the quality/resolution of course!!!).

I making an observatory that is almost done. Then I will start to use my new G11-Ovision (that is still virgin after all these months!). I've great expectactions of it !

I still have more 5 DSOs to process so need some time.

Cheers,

paulo

[Tim]

APOD: April 16, 1996 - Cometary Knots in the Helix Nebula

[3ggman]

fantastic, the detail is superb.

[Worzsel]

Cool, thanks TJ

[roundycat]

a fabulous result. Agree about the saturation and I wish you had been able to get the data without binning, the internal details (eggs and so on) would have been jaw dropping.

Dennis

[Shibby]

What a cracker! What focal length was used to get so close up? Forgive me if something in your OP should already be telling me that... I'm a noob still!

[paulobao]

Thanks.

I will try it next year at 0.9 arcsec/pixel (after putting everything at work in my new observatory....I made this at open air!). The sky should still be there next year I hope :-).

I will try a second approach tomorrow, let's see what I get!

Cheers,

paulo

[GuillermoBarrancos]

Wow! Another amazing picture Paulo!

[madjohn]

What a fabulous image! and a difficult object too, well done Paulo, thats a keeper for sure!

Looking forward to seeing the other images soon!

John

[paulobao]

Thanks.

Here my last and final processed image of it. Just small changes in the stars and small details.

Cheers,

paulo

[ollypenrice]

Simply glorious, the deepest I have ever seen. This image really hints at the cylindrical form which I read about once. It's brilliant, Paulo. APOD?

Olly

[AztecastroMcJ]

Superb pic Paulo

great detail and amazing colour

regards James

[paulobao]

Thanks Olly, I'm glad you liked it :-).

No, no APOD they really have great shots over there (despite sometimes I did not understand the criterion for selection!).

Cheers,

paulo

[Coco]

Bravo... superb image.. truly outstanding..

Cheers

Guy