helix Nebula Modified HaSHO (Rodd Dryfoos)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Aquarius (Aqr) · Contains: Helix Nebula · NGC 7293 · PK036-57.1

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Well, I said I would post a SHO version of the Helix and this is as close as I am likely to get. Its not strictly a Hubble Palette, becuase the SII was terribly faint. After 4 hours the SII stack was very pale--so much so that a balanced image could not really be renderd. So, I sort of combined part of the bicolor with the new SHO image to achieve this result. I do like it more than the bicolor, but I have no real interest in spending another night collecting SII. I might have 4 consecutive nights of decent sky and I am just not convinced that 8 hours of SII will be appreciably better than 4 (I only get 4 hours on this target per night)--not with so many targets available and the opportunity to actually finish an imge in a few days (It won't turn out that way--forecasts are unreliable these days. But I will get 1 or 2 nights. But I am not sure

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Description: Endblend4: Backed off a little

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Description: Endblend5a: Equalized background, improved star--very minor adjustments

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	3862266
PixInsight job	JFE52KTFZY8N0QB38MPYN0OR6W2XE836
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

RA (center)	22h29m49s.65
RA (top/left)	22h27m12s.52
RA (top/right)	22h32m37s.72
RA (bottom/right)	22h32m25s.65
RA (bottom/left)	22h27m02s.77

Dec (center)	-20°48′02″.7
Dec (top/left)	-21°17′59″.2
Dec (top/right)	-21°14′34″.9
Dec (bottom/right)	-20°17′56″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	-20°21′19″.6

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