Observation by Nik Szymanek: The Helix Nebula

Your PotW editor was challenged this week to find anything other than comet photos. A trawl back through the member pages unearthed this gem from Nik.

This NGC 7293 image was taken remotely using the Live CHI-1 telescope at El Sauce Observatory, Chile.

Telescope was a Planewave CDK 24" f/6.5 and the CCD Camera was a FLI ProLine PL9000 3056 x 3056 operating at 1.62 arcsec / px (bin 2x2).

This is an LRGB image with Astrodon filters and the exposure times were Lum: 105mins, Red: 65mins, Green: 65mins and Blue: 65mins. The image was processed with Maxim DL, PixInsight and Photoshop CC2020

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